Call number
811 DON
Collection
Publication
Dover Publications (1993), Edition: Revised ed., 96 pages
Description
Rich selection of 73 works by the English "metaphysical" poet. Included are "The Good Morrow," "The Canonization," "The Relic," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "To His Mistress Going to Bed," "Death Be Not Proud," "Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward," "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness" and many more. Note. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.
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LibraryThing member regularguy5mb
Who couldn't do with a little John Donne in their lives?
I'm trying to remember where I picked this one up, but for the life of me I can't. It might have been for a college class I wasn't taking, but seeing it on the shelf at the University Bookstore I was intrigued enough to grab a copy (I did that
This particular book includes selections from every style of Donne's work; from Satires, to Letters, to the Elegies, and a collection of his Holy Sonnets. I feel like it's a good cross-section for anyone interested in his style without wanting to find his whole collected works.
Also, I've now read the Holy Sonnet from which P.J. Farmer took the title for the first Riverworld book, To Your Scattered Bodies Go.
I'm trying to remember where I picked this one up, but for the life of me I can't. It might have been for a college class I wasn't taking, but seeing it on the shelf at the University Bookstore I was intrigued enough to grab a copy (I did that
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a lot in college).This particular book includes selections from every style of Donne's work; from Satires, to Letters, to the Elegies, and a collection of his Holy Sonnets. I feel like it's a good cross-section for anyone interested in his style without wanting to find his whole collected works.
Also, I've now read the Holy Sonnet from which P.J. Farmer took the title for the first Riverworld book, To Your Scattered Bodies Go.
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Pages
96
ISBN
0486277887 / 9780486277882
UPC
800759277889