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The Complete Poems of John Donne
 List Price: Price: $9.17 You Save: $1.82 (17%) DescriptionBorn in 1572 in London England, John Donne was an English Jacobean poet of exceptional skill, whose poetry was known for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor. While Donne was well educated and his poetic talents considerable he struggled for much of his life to provide for his family. Having published only two volumes during his lifetime, he was not a professional poet. Despite this his legacy on the world of poetry is a significant one. In this volume you will find a complete collection of John Donne's poetical works.
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne (Modern Library Classics)
 List Price: Price: $9.07 You Save: $7.88 (46%) DescriptionThis Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her," and "To His Mistris Going to Bed." Presented as well are Donne's satires, epigrams, verse letters, and holy sonnets, along with his most ambitious and important poems, the Anniversaries. In addition, there is a generous sampling of Donne's prose, including many of his private letters; Ignatius His Conclave, a satiric onslaught on the Jesuits; excerpts from Biathanatos, his celebrated defense of suicide; and his most famous sermons, concluding with the final "Death's Duell." "We have only to read [Donne]," wrote Virginia Woolf, "to submit to the sound of that passionate and penetrating voice, and his figure rises again across the waste of the years more erect, more imperious, more inscrutable than any of his time."
Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2
 List Price: Price: $9.99 DescriptionLives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Izaak Walton is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Izaak Walton then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.
The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics)
 List Price: Price: $9.63 You Save: $7.37 (43%) Description'The first poet in the world in some things', is how John Donne was described by his contemporary Ben Jonson. Yet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet—and even, many feel, the greatest love poet of them all. Jonson went on to remark that 'That Donne, for not keeping of an accent, deserved hanging', yet Donne's rhythms, once thought 'unmusical' are now recognized as the natural rhythms of the speaking voice; his 'eccentricity' as a complex self-doubt; his 'obscurity' the reflection of a brilliantly learned and allusive mind. Poets such as Eliot and Empson have found Donne's poetry profoundly attuned to our modern age, while Yeats' glowing comment will always be true: 'the intricacy and subtlety of his imagination are the length and depth of the furrow made by his passion.' This volume, superbly edited by Professor Smith, is the first complete edition to make a serious attempt to guide the reader closely through the complexities of Donne's poetry. Considerable attention has been paid to the text, and a selection of the important manuscript variants are included. This edition is also the first to make use of the newly discovered manuscript of the verse letter to Lady Carey and Mistress Essex Rich.
John Donne: The Reformed Soul: A Biography
 List Price: Price: $7.99 You Save: $10.96 (58%) Description"Elegantly written, psychologically and historically astute."—Los Angeles Times Book Review From scholar to buccaneer, from outcast to establishment figure, John Donne emerged as one of the greatest English poets. Following Donne from Plague-ridden streets to palaces, from taverns to the pulpit of St Paul's, John Stubbs's "exemplary literary biography" (Harold Bloom) is a vivid portrait of an extraordinary writer and his country at a time of bewildering and cruel transformation.Donne John News
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guardian.co.ukLast night's TV: Simon Schama's John Donne, Painting the Mind and Simon Schama in his John Donne appreciation. Photograph: Eamonn mccabe He was born in London to members of a persecuted religious minority. A couple of his uncles were of a militant bent, and he was brought up, it was said, "with an expectation of Simon Schama's John Donne; Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!” TV Review: Armando Iannucci: Milton's Heaven And Hell, BBC Two
Times OnlineSimon Schama's John Donne; Kick Out the Kids; Uncovering Our “No man is an island, entire of itself,” wrote the poet John Donne in one of his best-known works. Yet the man himself was something of an island. Donne was more adventurous than his contemporary Shakespeare — the most electrifying poet in the English Interview: Simon Schama celebrates John Donne