{"product_id":"the-variorum-edition-of-the-poetry-of-john-donne-the-elegies-9780253333766","title":"The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents an edited text of the author's elegies and a comprehensive variorum commentary. This book is based on a study of known manuscript sources and significant printed editions of his poetry and on an examination of the criticism and scholarship of the previous centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the end, the Elegies are experiments in rhetoric, and whilst, for Donne as for Shakespeare, that does not automatically entail insincerity, it refuses to make sincerity the touchstone of excellence. We are seldom reminded as forcefully as by these poems that in the Latin poetry which underlies them the idea of rhetorical figuration is itself imaged as the application of cosmetics. March 2001\u003c\/p\u003e * New Criterion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century. Superb.\u003c\/p\u003e * Early Modern Literary Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcademic libraries and specialists in Renaissance and 17th–century studies should feel compelled to own each and every volume of this series.\u003c\/p\u003e * Seventeeth Century News *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike its predecessors, . . . [this] volume of the Donne Variorum enterprise to appear is a triumph in every way.\u003c\/p\u003e * John Donne Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . This edition immediately displaces all its predecessors, and will be indispensable for scholars and libraries.\u003c\/p\u003e * TLS *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this third volume in a projected eight-volume series, Stringer presents the most authoritative texts and fullest editorial history of the elegies, including textual apparatus from all known manuscripts and editions from the 17th century onward, and also a comprehensive summary of scholarly and critical commentary on the elegies (also from Donne's era onward). The remarkable insights in the textual\/editorial component include identification of the most authoritative manuscript for the elegies (housed in the New York Public Library) and a persuasive speculation that the first 12 elegies in this manuscript reflect Donne's intended sequence. Critical insights reveal the early trend not to treat the elegies as a separate group but to integrate them into a discussion of Donne's amatory verse; the value of using the elegies as context for Donne's later amatory verse, notably Songs and Sonnets; moralistic and biographical readings, which sometimes characterize Donne as a libertine and denounce him for licentiousness; Donne as the first poet to write love elegies in English; the coteries for which the elegies were written and the scribal culture that copied and recopied them for presentation to such audiences of intellectuals. The volume contains five indexes and the most comprehensive bibliography on the elegies now available. Indispensable for large collections supporting 17th–century literature.February 2001\u003c\/p\u003e -- A. C. Labriola * Duquesne University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eShort Forms of Reference for Donne's Works\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations Used in the Commentary\u003cbr\u003eSigla for Textual Sources\u003cbr\u003eManuscripts Listed by Traditional Classification\u003cbr\u003eSymbols and Abbreviations Used in the Textual Apparatus\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Introduction\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to Volume 2\u003cbr\u003eTexts and Apparatuses\u003cbr\u003e THE ELEGIES\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 1 The Bracelet.\u003cbr\u003e [Not that in color it was like thy haire]\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 2 The Comparison.\u003cbr\u003e [As the sweet sweate of roses in a still,]\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 3. The Perfume.\u003cbr\u003e [Once and but once found in thy companee]\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 4. Jealousy.\u003cbr\u003e [Found woman which wouldst haue thy husband dy]\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 5. Oh let not me serve so.\u003cbr\u003e [Oh let not me serve so, as those men serve]\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 6. Natures Lay Ideott.\u003cbr\u003e [Natures Lay Ideott, I tought thee to Love]\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 7. Love's War.\u003cbr\u003e [Till I haue peace with thee, warr other Men;]\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 8. To his Mistress going to bed.\u003cbr\u003e [Come Madame, come; All rest my powers defy;]\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 9. Change.\u003cbr\u003e [Allthough thy hand, and fayth and good works too]\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 10. The Anagram.\u003cbr\u003e [Marry and love thy Flauai for Shee]\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 11. On his Mistris.\u003cbr\u003e [By our first strange and fatal interview]\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 12. His Picture.\u003cbr\u003e [Here take my picture, though I bid farewell]\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 13. The Autumnall.\u003cbr\u003e [No springe, nor summer beautie, hath such grace]\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 14. Loues Progresse.\u003cbr\u003e [Whoe ever luves, if hee doe not propose]\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 15. His Parting from Her.\u003cbr\u003e [Since shee must goe, and I must mourne, some night]\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 16. The Expostulation.\u003cbr\u003e [To make the doubt cleare, that noe woman's true] \u003cbr\u003e Elegy 17. Variety.\u003cbr\u003e [The heuens rejoyce in motion, why should I]\u003cbr\u003e Sappho to Philnis.\u003cbr\u003e [As the sweet sweate of roses in a still,]\u003cbr\u003e Analysis of Early Printed Copies\u003cbr\u003e DUBIA\u003cbr\u003e Textual Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Elegy. Iulia.\u003cbr\u003e [Hearke newes, o Enuy, Thou shalt heare desiry'd]\u003cbr\u003e A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife.\u003cbr\u003e [I sing no harme, goodsooth, to any wight]\u003cbr\u003e APPENDIX\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e De Verstellingh\u003cbr\u003e [Hebt Flavia vry lief, en trouwtse toe: haer wesen]\u003cbr\u003e Aen sign Lief.\u003cbr\u003e [Doe mijn Ziel saliger gescheedt stack in mijn'leden,]\u003cbr\u003eCommentary\u003cbr\u003e General Commentary on the Elegies\u003cbr\u003e Dates and Circumstances\u003cbr\u003e General Commentary\u003cbr\u003e Classical Borrowings and Literary Influences\u003cbr\u003e Versification\u003cbr\u003e Elegy as Genre\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 1. The Bracelet.\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 2. The Comparison.\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 3. The Perfume.\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 4. Jealousy. \u003cbr\u003e Elegy 5. Oh let me not serve so. \u003cbr\u003e Elegy 6. Natures Lay Ideott.\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 7. Love's War. \u003cbr\u003e Elegy 8. To his Mistress going to bed. \u003cbr\u003e Elegy 9. Change. \u003cbr\u003e Elegy 10. The Anagram. \u003cbr\u003e Elegy 11. On his Mistris. \u003cbr\u003e Elegy 12. His Picture. \u003cbr\u003e Elegy 13. The Autumnall.\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 14. Loues Progresse. \u003cbr\u003e Elegy 15. His Parting From Her. \u003cbr\u003e Elegy 16. The Expostulation.\u003cbr\u003e Elegy 17. Variety. \u003cbr\u003e Sappho to Philaenis.\u003cbr\u003eDUBIA\u003cbr\u003e Elegy. Iulia.\u003cbr\u003e Commentary\u003cbr\u003e Notes and Glosses\u003cbr\u003e A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife\u003cbr\u003e Commentary\u003cbr\u003e Notes and Glosses\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndexes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400674255191,"sku":"9780253333766","price":59.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253333766.jpg?v=1730471263","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-variorum-edition-of-the-poetry-of-john-donne-the-elegies-9780253333766","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}