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Title: The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne (Modern Library Classics) by John Donne, Charles M. Coffin ISBN: 0-375-75734-1 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 14 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Plees updeight th' speling for moderne readeres
Comment: I agree with all the positive things said about Donne on this page. Also, this book's great strength is its breadth, including poems, letters, sermons, and other writings of Donne. One gets all the poems and most of his available prose. The only difficulty I had is that all of the poems are presented without any effort to modernize the spelling of words. Often, this distracts from a more perfect enjoyment of Donne's wit, sentiment, conceits and emotions. For those who might find antiquated spelling a distraction, I recommend they find another edition.
Rating: 5
Summary: CANONIZED FOR LOVE
Comment: In John Donne, the artist and man, we have a many-faceted gem. What moves me most about him, who in my view has no superiors among English poets, is that wherever he speaks from, the most sensually playful to the most solemnly prayerful (the two are often inseparable), he is always so openly, deeply engaged. His unsurpassed verbal ability is always so immediately in touch with his perception so that his language moves and lives with the mysterious life of perception itself. Even when he is most elaborately inventive and involved, he is never contrived or remote, he is always fully there. His art is fed and shaped by his perception and his perception is always so fresh and penetrating, so uninhibited by assumption and convention and yet wherever he travels he is somehow always so available to the sincere reader. For me this all bespeaks a sensitive, large, generous soul. It is always so self-aware, but never self-centered, and even when weak and mortally distressed it is still deep and rich, never thin, sour, bitter. A very lovable soul.
Often one finds references to T. S. Eliot when people speak or write about Donne. For me, the references are usually facile and Donne is clearly the greater figure. It says much to me that I love him dearly though I do not share his religious belief. I respect Eliot, but I find it much more difficult to love him and often even to locate him. He is too cold and artificially remote in comparison and I do not accept the validity of his 'impersonal transcendence'. I am not saying that Eliot should have tried to be more in touch with the reader, that is a silly idea and never a real concern for a genuine artist. I am saying that he should have tried to be more in touch with himself. He is in reality no more inwardly complex or many-faced than Donne, and certainly not more profound, but by comparison he seems cold, fragmented and stagnant to me and simply more inclined to wear his sweat on his sleeve. I know that some might say that Eliot had more difficult times and trials to deal with than did Donne, but I think that anyone who familiarizes himself with the wide range of Donne's work, and this volume from The Modern Library makes that possible, will see this is simply not true. Any one who is not familiar with Donne's work is unaware of some of the deepest, richest, vivifying depths that English language art has reached. It has something to do with love of which Donne knew much.
Rating: 5
Summary: As Usual, Modern Library Series Succeeds
Comment: This volume is a wonderful selection of Donne's prose, and is especially useful for the various sermons included. John Donne is a brilliant poet whose skillful use of language and understanding of the paradoxes of Christianity are a delight. To have the entire range of his poetry, pre- and post-conversion, is very useful.
A great reference tool for the student of literature, and a good read (Oxford English dictionary readily accessible, of course).
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Title: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel by John Donne, Andrew Motion, Izaak Walton ISBN: 0375705481 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake by William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom, William Golding ISBN: 0385152132 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 16 April, 1982 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: John Donne's Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Criticism (A Norton Critical Editions) by John Donne, Arthur L. Clemens ISBN: 0393960625 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $15.65 |
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Title: John Donne and the Seventeenth-Century Metaphysical Poets (Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom ISBN: 0877546770 Publisher: Chelsea House Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1986 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: John Donne: Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions and Prayers (Classics of Western Spirituality) by John Booty ISBN: 0809131609 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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