The Divine Poems

by Donne, Jonn; Gardner, Helen

• ISBN13: 9780198118367
• ISBN10: 0198118368
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This classic edition of Donne's Divine Poems contains an extensive andinvaluable critical apparatus by Helen Gardner.

Table of Contents

List of References and Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction
The Religious Poetry of John Donne	xv
The Date, Order, and Interpretation of the 'Holy Sonnets'	xxxvii
Textual Introduction
The Manuscripts	lvi
The Editions	lxxxii
Conclusions	xci
List of Sigla	xcvii
DIVINE POEMS
Holy Sonnets
To Mrs. Magdalen Herbert: of St. Mary Magdalen	1	(1)
La Corona	1	(4)
Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise
Annunciation
Nativitie
Temple
Crucifying
Resurrection
Ascention
To E. of D. with six holy Sonnets	5	(1)
Holy Sonnets (1633): Divine Meditations	6	(6)
As due by many titles I resigne
Oh my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned
This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint
At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow
If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Spit in my face yee Jewes, and pierce my side
Why are wee by all creatures waited on?
What if this present were the worlds last night?
Batter my heart, three person'd God; for, you
Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest
Father, part of his double interest
Holy Sonnets (added in 1635): Divine Meditations	12	(2)
Thou hast made me, And shall thy worke decay?
I am a little world made cunningly
O might those sighes and teares returne againe
If faithfull soules be alike glorifi'd
Holy Sonnets (from the Westmoreland MS.)	14	(2)
Since she whome I lovd, hath payd her last debt
Show me deare Christ, thy spouse, so bright and cleare
Oh, to vex me, contraryes meete in one
A Litanie	16	(19)
Occasional Poems
The Crosse	26	(2)
Resurrection, imperfect	28	(1)
Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608	29	(1)
Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward	30	(2)
To Mr. Tilman after he had taken orders	32	(1)
Upon the translation of the Psalmes by Sir Philip Sidney, and the Countesse of Pembroke his Sister	33	(2)
The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part according to Tremelius	35	(19)
Hymns
A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany	48	(2)
Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse	50	(1)
A Hymne to God the Father	51	(1)
Latin Poems
To Mr. George Herbert, with my Seal, of the Anchor and Christ	52	(1)
Epigraph to the Portrait of Donne in his Shroud, Prefixed to Deaths Duell (1632)	53	(1)
Commentary	54	(60)
Appendix A: Donne's Views on the State of the Soul After Death	114	(4)
Appendix B: Verbal Alterations in the Divine Poems in the Edition of 1635	118	(3)
Appendix C: The Interpretation of Donne's Sonnet on the Church	121	(6)
Appendix D: Donne and Tilman: their Reluctance to take Orders	127	(5)
Appendix E: The Date of the 'Hymn to God my God, in my Sickness'	132	(3)
Appendix F: 'Paradise and Calvarie'	135	(3)
Appendix G: Donne's Latin Poem to Herbert and Herbert's Reply	138