JOHN DONNE 21COA - Mueller

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Résumé :
This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of John Donne (1572-1631). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this authoritative edition enables students to study Donne's work in the order in which it was written, and, wherever possible, using the text of the first published version. The volume presents a wholly new edition of Donne's verse and prose, consisting of a selection of Donne's compositions that circulated in manuscript or in print form during his lifetime. Each text is paired with a generous complement of historical and textual annotation, which enables students to access and appreciate the excitement with which Donne's contemporaries--his first readers--discovered his famous and incomparable originality, audacity, ingenuity, and wit. The edition incorporates new directions and emphases in scholarly editing that equip students with a better understanding of the texts and the contexts in which they were produced, such as the history of readership and the history of texts as material objects. Explanatory notes and commentary are included, to enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works, and the edition includes an Introduction to the life and works of Donne, and a Chronology....

Biographie:
Janel Mueller is the William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Department of English and the College, The University of Chicago. She is the former editor of Modern Philology and the former dean of the Division of the Humanities at Chicago. She has published on a range of subjects in English Reformation and Renaissance literature, focusing particularly on the writings of Elizabeth I and Katherine Parr....

Sommaire:

• Introduction
• A Note on Editorial Practices
• A Selective Chronology of Donne's Life
• FROM THE WESTMORELAND MANUSCRIPT, PRE-1599 COMPOSITIONS
• Satires (Satyra)
• Elegies (Elegia)
• Epithalamium
• Verse Letters to Male Friends
• Paradoxes
• Epigrams
• To a Jet ring sent to me
• FROM THE BURLEY MANUSCRIPT, LETTERS CONCERNING HIS MARRIAGE (1602)
• THE FIRST AND SECOND ANNIVERSARIES (FIRST EDITION, 1612)
• To the Praise of the Dead, and the Anatomy
• The First Anniversary. An Anatomie of the World
• A Funerall Elegie
• The Harbinger to the Progres
• The Second Anniversarie. Of the Progres of the Soule
• FROM THE DOWDEN MANUSCRIPT, POEMS COMPOSED BEFORE THE END OF 1614
• Elegies
• The Calme
• Verse Letters to Noble Ladies
• La Corona
• Holy Sonnets
• The Crosse
• The Annuntiation
• The Litanye
• Goodfriday. 1613. Riding towards Wales
• Songs and Sonnets
• An Epithalamion or Maryage Song, on the Lady Elisabeth, and Frederick Count
• Palatine, beeing maryed on Saint Valentines day
• Eclogue. 1613. December 26
• Epithalamion
• Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Countesse of Bedford
• FROM THE WESTMORELAND MANUSCRIPT, RELIGIOUS LYRICS (1607-1620)
• DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONS (FIRST EDITION, 1624)