Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne Volume 6

<p>The appearance of the first volume . . . is an occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century . . . --Claude J. Summers <i>Early Modern Literary Studies</i><br /><br /> . . . especially valuable for its wide-ranging and reliable summaries of textual and critical commentary on these works . . . This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship. --<i>Bibliotèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance</i><br /><br /> . . . the most important collaborative project in 17th-century studies in recent history . . . --<i>Seventeenth-Century News</i><br /><br />A major editorial and interpretive undertaking this edition includes a newly edited critical text based on exhaustive study of all known manuscripts and significant printed editions of Donne's poetry and a complete digest of critical and scholarly commentary on the poetry from Donne's time to the present.</p>