The Holy Sonnets

by Stringer, Gary A.

• ISBN13: 9780253347015
• ISBN10: 0253347017
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-30
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Gary A. Stringer is Visiting Professor of English at Texas A& M University.

Paul A. Parrish is Regents Professor and head of the Department of English at Texas A& M University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	XIV
Short Forms of Reference for Donne's Works	XVIII
Abbreviations Used in the Commentary	XXV
Sigla for Textual Sources	XXXII
Manuscripts Listed by Traditional Classification	XLIII
Symbols and Abbreviations Used in the Textual Apparatus	XLIV
General Introduction	XLV
Introduction to Volume 7.1
General Textual Introduction	LX
The Critical Tradition	CIII
Texts and Apparatuses
THE HOLY SONNETS
Original Sequence
1. [Thou hast made me,] HSMade	5	(1)
2. [As due by many titles] HSDue	5	(1)
3. [O might those sighes] HSSighs	6	(1)
4. [Father, part of his double Interest] HSPart	6	(1)
5. [O my blacke Soule,] HSBlack	7	(1)
6. [This is my Playes last scene,] HSScene	7	(1)
7. [I am a litle World,] HSLittle	8	(1)
8. [At the round Earths Imagin'd corners] HSRound	8	(1)
9. [Yf poysonous Mineralls,] HSMin	9	(1)
10. [Yf faithfull Soules] HSSouls	9	(1)
11. [Death be not proud,] HSDeath	10	(1)
12. [Wilt thou loue God,] HSWi1t	10	(1)
Westmoreland Sequence
1. [Thou hast made me,] HSMade	11	(1)
2. [As due by many titles] HSDue
3. [O might those sighes] HSSighs	12	(1)
4. [Father, part of his double interest] HSPart	12	(1)
5. [Oh my black Soule,] HSBlack	13	(1)
6. [This is my Playes last Scene,] HSScene	13	(1)
7. [I ame a litle World,] HSLittle	14	(1)
8. [At the round Earths imagind corners] HSRound	14	(1)
9. [If poysonous Minerals,] HSMin	15	(1)
10. [If faythfull Soules] HSSouls	15	(1)
11. [Death be not proud,] HSDeath	16	(1)
12. [Wilt thou love God,] HSWilt	16	(1)
13. [Spitt in my face] HSSpit	17	(1)
14. [Why ame I by all Creatures] HSWhy	17	(1)
15. [What yf this present] HSWhat	18	(1)
16. [Batter my hart,] HSBatter	18	(1)
17. [Since She whome I loud,] HSShe	19	(1)
18. [Show me deare Christ,] HSShow	19	(1)
19. [Oh, to vex me,] HSVex	20	(1)
Revised Sequence
1. [As due by many titles] HSDue	21	(1)
2. [Oh my black Soule,] HSBlack	21	(1)
3. [This is my Playes last Scene,] HSScene	22	(1)
4. [At the round Earths imagin'd corners] HSRound	22	(1)
5. [If poysonous mineralls,] HSMin	23	(1)
6. [Death bee not proude,] HSDeath	23	(1)
7. [Spitt in my face] HSSpit	24	(1)
8. [Why are wee by all Creatures] HSWhy	24	(1)
9. [What if this present] HSWhat	25	(1)
10. [Batter my heart,] HSBatter	25	(1)
11. [Wilt thou loue God] HSWilt	26	(1)
12. [Father, part of his double interest] HSPart	26	(1)
Lists of Copy-Texts and Emendations for the Three Sequences	27	(4)
Textual Introductions and Apparatuses for Individual Holy Sonnets (arranged alphabetically by short forms)
HSBatter	31	(4)
HSBlack	35	(4)
HSDeath	39	(4)
HSDue	43	(4)
HSLittle	47	(3)
HSMade	50	(4)
HSMin	54	(4)
HSPart	58	(4)
HSRound	62	(4)
HS Scene	66	(4)
HSShe	70	(3)
HSShow	73	(2)
HSSighs	75	(3)
HSSouls	78	(4)
HSSpit	82	(4)
HSVex	86	(2)
HS What	88	(4)
HS Why	92	(4)
HSWiIt	96	(4)
Analyses of Early Printed Copies	100	(2)
APPENDICES
Appendix 1: The 1635 Sequence	102	(9)
Appendix 2: A Note on Identifying Authorial Revisions Among Manuscript Variants	111	(5)
Commentary
THE HOLY SONNETS
General Commentary on the Holy Sonnets	116	(105)
Dating and Order	133	(13)
The Poet/Persona	146	(11)
Genre and Traditions	157	(11)
Language and Style	168	(8)
Prosody	176	(2)
Sacred and Profane	178	(8)
Themes	186	(15)
The Holy Sonnets and Other Works	201	(20)
Commentary on Individual Holy Sonnets (arranged alphabetically by short forms)
HS Batter
Commentary	221	(1)
Notes and Glosses	261	(15)
HSBlack
Commentary	276	(1)
Notes and Glosses	285	(8)
HSDeath
Commentary	293	(1)
Notes and Glosses	311	(8)
HSDue
Commentary	319	(1)
Notes and Glosses	327	(6)
HSLittle
Commentary	333	(1)
Notes and Glosses	341	(7)
HSMade
Commentary	348	(1)
Notes and Glosses 36o
HSMin
Commentary	367	(1)
Notes and Glosses	375	(7)
HSPart
Commentary	382	(1)
Notes and Glosses	384	(4)
HSRound
Commentary	388	(1)
Notes and Glosses	405	(11)
HSScene
Commentary	416	(1)
Notes and Glosses	424	(7)
HSShe
Commentary	431	(1)
Notes and Glosses	444	(9)
HSShow
Commentary	453	(1)
Notes and Glosses	471	(10)
HSSighs
Commentary	481	(1)
Notes and Glosses	485	(5)
HSSouls
Commentary	490	(1)
Notes and Glosses	495	(3)
HSSpit
Commentary	498	(1)
Notes and Glosses	505	(5)
HSVex
Commentary	510	(1)
Notes and Glosses	520	(5)
HSWhat
Commentary	525	(1)
Notes and Glosses	536	(7)
HSWhy
Commentary	543	(1)
Notes and Glosses	546	(4)
HS Wilt
Commentary	550	(1)
Notes and Glosses	552	(3)
Works Cited	555	(33)
Index of Authors Cited in the Commentary	588	(9)
Index of Writers and Historical Figures Cited in the Commentary	597	(3)
Index of Other Poems and Works of Donne Cited in the Commentary	600	(2)
Index of Titles	602	(2)
Index of First Lines	604	(1)
About the Editors	605