The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne The Holy Sonnets [Hardcover]

From reviews of previous volumes:

This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship. Chronique

Academic libraries and specialists in Renaissance and 17th-century studies should feel compelled to own each and every volume of this series. Seventeenth Century News

An occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century. Superb. Early Modern Literary
Studies

This latest addition to the Donne variorum, the third to appear in a projected eight-volume series, presents a newly edited critical text of Donnes elegies and a comprehensive variorum commentary. As with previous volumes, Volume 2 is based on a study of all known manuscript sources and significant printed editions of Donnes poetry and on an examination of the criticism and scholarship of the past four centuries.

An occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century. Superb.Academic libraries and specialists in Renaissance and 17thcentury studies should feel compelled to own each and every volume of this series.

Gary A. Stringer is Professor of English at Texas A&M University.

Ted-Larry Pebworth is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Ernest W. Sullivan, II, is Edward S. Diggs Professor of English at Virginia Tech University.

John R. Roberts is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Diana Trevino Benet is Professor of English at the University of North Texas.

Theodore J. Sherman is Assistant Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University.

Dennis Flynn is Professor of English at Bentley College.

Paul A Parrish is Professor of English at Texas A&M University.

In the end, the Elegies are experiments in rhetoric, and whilst, for Donne as for Shakespeare, that does not aul