The Poems of John Donne: Volume One

John Donne is considered the best of the metaphysical poets and one of the greatest writers of love poetry ever. This fully comprehensive annotated edition of his poetry will be considered the best edition to read him in. Annotations give detailed guidance on the wealth of classical and religious allusions and give full representation to the literary, historical and philosophical culture out of which the poems grewThe books are organised to reproduce the manner in which Donne's original readers first encountered the poems in the various manuscripts of his elegies and satires that circulated in Donne's lifetime Each poem has extensive editorial commentary designed to put the twenty first century reader in possession of all that is necessary fully to appreciate Donne's work Donne's own text has been modernised in punctuation and spelling except where to do so would alter or disrupt a rhyme.