Volume 5 of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne (Verse Letters) provides the most authoritative texts of the poems that Donne wrote in this genre. It includes complete textual introductions and apparatuses for each of the 42 poems in the volume. In addition, the volume contains comprehensive summaries, along with notes and glosses, of everything written on these poems from Donne's time through 2013.
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This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship.
" - Chronique
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Academic libraries and specialists in Renaissance and 17th-century studies should feel compelled to own each and every volume of this series.
" - Seventeenth-Century News
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An occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century. Superb.
" - Early Modern Literary Studies
