The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 2 The Elegies [Hardcover]

The appearance of the first volume... is an occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century... Claude J. Summers, Early Modern Literary Studies

... especially valuable for its wide-ranging and reliable summaries of textual and critical commentary on these works... This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship. Bibliot?que dHumanisme et Renaissance

... the most important collaborative project in 17th-century studies in recent history... Seventeenth-Century News

A major editorial and interpretive undertaking, this edition includes a newly edited critical text based on exhaustive study of all known manuscripts and significant printed editions of Donnes poetry and a complete digest of critical and scholarly commentary on the poetry from Donnes time to the present.

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.In 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 2001Like its predecessors, . . . [this] volume of the Donne Variorum enterprise to appear is a triumph in every way.. . . This edition immediately displaces all its predecessors, and will be indispensable for scholars and libraries.

Acknowledgments
Short Forms of Reference for Donnes Works
Abrreviations Used in the Commentary
Sigla for Textual Sources
Symbols and Abbreviations UslÓÍ