The Holy Sonnets

This is the 4th volume of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne to appear. This volume presents a newly edited critical text of the Holy Sonnets and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time through 1995. The editors identify and print both an earlier and a revised authorial sequence of sonnets, as well as presenting the scribal collection-which contains unique authorial versions of several of the sonnets-inscribed by Donne's friend Rowland Woodward in the Westmoreland manuscript.Gary A. Stringer is visiting professor of English at Texas A & M University. Editor of volumes 4-9 of Explorations in Renaissance Culture and New Essays on Donne, he is a former chair of the Committee on Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.Paul A. Parrish is Regents Professor and Head of the Department of English at Texas A & M University, author of Richard Crashaw, and editor of Celebration: Introduction to Literature.