John Donne

by Donne, John; Carey, John

• ISBN13: 9780192813411
• ISBN10: 0192813412
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-12-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Unparalleled in scope, this important volume provides the most comprehensive selection to date of Donne's works. In addition to the poems, it contains excerpts from all the prose writings, including such unfamiliar items as Donne's private letters, his comic onslaught on the Jesuits, Ignatius His Conclave , and his defense of suicide in Biathanotos . In addition, Carey presents over 130 excerpts from sermons culled from Donne's sixteen-year preaching career, concluding with the full text of his last sermon, Death's Duel .

Table of Contents

Songs and sonnets
The good morrow	p. 3
Song ('Go and catch a falling star')	p. 3
Woman's constancy	p. 4
The undertaking	p. 5
The sun rising	p. 6
The indifferent	p. 7
Love's usury	p. 8
The canonization	p. 9
The triple fool	p. 10
Lovers' infiniteness	p. 11
Song ('Sweetest love, I do not go')	p. 12
The legacy	p. 13
A fever	p. 14
Air and angels	p. 15
Break of day	p. 16
The anniversary	p. 17
A valediction of my name in the window	p. 18
Twicknam garden	p. 20
Valediction of the book	p. 21
Community	p. 23
Love's growth	p. 24
Love's exchange	p. 25
Confined love	p. 26
The dream	p. 27
A valediction of weeping	p. 28
Love's alchemy	p. 29
The flea	p. 30
The curse	p. 31
The message	p. 32
A nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day, being the shortest day	p. 33
Witchcraft by a picture	p. 34
The bait	p. 35
The apparition	p. 36
The broken heart	p. 36
A valediction forbidding mourning	p. 37
The ecstasy	p. 39
Love's deity	p. 41
Love's diet	p. 42
The will	p. 43
The funeral	p. 45
The blossom	p. 46
The primrose	p. 47
The relic	p. 48
The damp	p. 49
The dissolution	p. 50
A jet ring sent	p. 50
Negative love	p. 51
The prohibition	p. 52
The expiration	p. 52
The computation	p. 53
The paradox	p. 53
Farewell to love	p. 54
Lecture upon the shadow	p. 55
Epigrams
Hero and leander	p. 56
Pyramus and Thisbe	p. 56
Niobe	p. 57
A burnt ship	p. 57
Fall of a wall	p. 57
A lame beggar	p. 57
A self accuser	p. 57
A licentious person	p. 58
Antiquary	p. 58
Disinherited	p. 58
Phryne	p. 58
An obscure writer	p. 58
Raderus	p. 58
Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus	p. 59
Ralphius	p. 59
Sir John Wingefield	p. 59
The liar	p. 59
Cales and Guiana	p. 60
Klockius	p. 60
The juggler	p. 60
Faustus	p. 60
Elegies
Elegy : the anagram	p. 60
Elegy : change	p. 62
Elegy : the perfume	p. 63
Elegy : his picture	p. 65
Elegy : O, let me not serve so	p. 66
Elegy : nature's lay idiot	p. 67
Elegy : the comparison	p. 68
Elegy : the autumnal	p. 70
Elegy : image of her whom I love	p. 71
Elegy : the bracelet	p. 72
Elegy : his parting from her	p. 75
Elegy : the expostulation	p. 78
Elegy : to his mistress going to bed	p. 80
Elegy : love's progress	p. 82
Elegy : on his mistress	p. 84
The epithalamions or marriage songs
An epithalamion, or marriage song, on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine	p. 86
Epithalamion made at Lincoln's Inn	p. 90
Eclogue	p. 93
Epithalamion	p. 96
Satires
Satire I	p. 102
Satire II	p. 105
Satire III	p. 108
Satire V	p. 111
Letters
The storm	p. 114
The calm	p. 116
To Mr Henry Wotton ('Here's no more new than virtue')	p. 118
To Mr Henry Wotton ('Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls')	p. 119
To Mr Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widowhood')	p. 121
To Mr T. W. ('All hail sweet poet')	p. 122
To Mr T. W. ('Haste thee harsh verse')	p. 123
To Mr T. W. ('Pregnant again with th'old twins')	p. 124
To Mr T. W. ('At once, from hence')	p. 124
To Mr R. W. ('Zealously my muse doth salute all thee')	p. 125
To Mr R. W. (Muse not that by thy mind thy body' is led')	p. 125
To Mr C. B.	p. 126
To Mr R. W. ('If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be')	p. 126
To Mr R. W. ('Kindly'I envy thy song's perfection')	p. 127
H. W. in Hiber. Belligeranti	p. 128
To Sir H. W. at his going ambassador to Venice	p. 128
To Sir Henry Goodyere	p. 130
To the Countess of Huntingdon ('That unripe side of earth')	p. 132
To Mrs M. H.	p. 135
To the Countess of Bedford ('Reason is our soul's left hand')	p. 137
To the Countess of Bedford ('Honour is so sublime perfection')	p. 139
To the Countess of Bedford ('You have refined me')	p. 141
To the Countess of Bedford ('T'have written then, when you writ')	p. 143
To the Countess of Bedford, on New Year's Day	p. 146
To Sir Edward Herbert, at Juliers	p. 148
To the Countess of Huntingdon ('Man to God's image')	p. 149
A letter to the Lady Carey, and
Mistress Essex Rich, from Amiens	p. 152
Sappho to Philaenis	p. 154
Funeral elegies
The first anniversary. An anatomy of the world	p. 156
Epitaph on himself. To the Countess of Bedford	p. 170
Epitaph on Anne Donne	p. 171
Divine poems
To the Lady Magdalen Herbert, of St Mary Magdalen	p. 173
La Corona	p. 173
Holy Sonnet I ('Thou hast made me')	p. 177
Holy Sonnet II ('As due by many titles')	p. 177
Holy Sonnet III ('O might those sighs and tears')	p. 178
Holy Sonnet IV ('O my black soul!')	p. 178
Holy Sonnet V ('I am a little world')	p. 179
Holy Sonnet VI ('This is my play's last scene')	p. 179
Holy Sonnet VII ('At the round earth's imagined corners')	p. 180
Holy Sonnet VIII ('If faithful souls be alike glorified')	p. 180
Holy Sonnet IX ('If poisonous minerals')	p. 181
Holy Sonnet X ('Death be not proud')	p. 181
Holy Sonnet XI ('Spit in my face, you Jews')	p. 182
Holy Sonnet XII ('Why are we by all creatures')	p. 182
Holy Sonnet XIII ('What if this present')	p. 183
Holy Sonnet XIV ('Batter my heart')	p. 183
Holy Sonnet XV ('Wilt thou love God')	p. 184
Holy Sonnet XVI ('Father, part of his double interest')	p. 184
Holy Sonnet XVII ('Since she whom I loved')	p. 185
Holy Sonnet XVIII ('Show me, dear Christ')	p. 185
Holy Sonnet XIX ('O, to vex me')	p. 186
The cross	p. 186
The Annunciation and Passion	p. 188
Goodfriday, 1613. Riding westward	p. 190
Upon the translation of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, his sister	p. 191
To Mr Tilman after he had taken orders	p. 193
A hymn to Christ, at the author's last going into Germany	p. 194
Hymn to God my God, in my sickness	p. 195
A hymn to God the father	p. 197
To Mr George Herbert, with one of my seals, of the anchor and Christ	p. 197
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