John Donne Selected Writings

The John Donne volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers a wholly new edition of Donne's verse and prose. It consists of a selection of the compositions that circulated in manuscript or in print form during Donne's lifetime. In keeping with the approach of the series, the texts are presented in chronological order and the text chosen is, wherever possible, the text of the first published version. Each text is paired with a generous complement of historical and textual annotation, which enables the present day reader to access the excitement with which Donne's contemporaries, his first readers, discovered his famous and incomparable originality, audacity, ingenuity, and wit. The edition incorporates new directions and emphases in scholarly editing that are foregrounded in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series, such as the history of readership and the history of texts as material objects.

Janel Mueller, William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, The University of Chicago

Janel Mueller is the William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Department of English and the College, The University of Chicago. She is the former editor of Modern Philology and the former dean of the Division of the Humanities at Chicago. She has published on a range of subjects in English Reformation and Renaissance literature, focusing particularly on the writings of Elizabeth I and Katherine Parr.

Introduction
A Note on Editorial Practices
A Selective Chronology of Donne's Life
FROM THE WESTMORELAND MANUSCRIPT, PRE-1599 COMPOSITIONS
Satires (Satyra)
Elegies (Elegia)
Epithalamium
Verse Letters to Male Friends
Paradoxes
Epigrams
To a Jet ring sent to me
FROM THE BURLEY MANUSCRIPT, LETTERS CONCERNING HIS MARRIAGE (1602)
THE FIRST AND SECOND ANNIVERSARIES (FIRST EDITION, 1612)
To the Praise of the Dead, and the Anatomy
The First Anniversary. An Anatomie of the World
A Funerall Elegie
The Harbinger to the Progres
The Second Anniversarie. Of the Progres of the Soule
FROM THE DOWDEN MANUSCRIPT, POEMS COMPOSED BEFORE THE END OF 1614
Elegies
The Calme
Verse Letters to Male Friends
Verse Letters to Noble Ladies
La Corona
Holy Sonnets
The Crosse
The Annuntiation
The Litanye
Goodfriday. 1613. Riding towards Wales
Songs and Sonnets
An Epithalamion or Maryage Song, on the Lady Elisabeth, and Frederick Count
Palatine, beeing maryed on Saint Valentines day
Eclogue. 1613. December 26
Epithalamion
Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Countesse of Bedford
FROM THE WESTMORELAND MANUSCRIPT, RELIGIOUS LYRICS (1607-1620)
DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONS (FIRST EDITION, 1624)