(c. 1572-1631) John Donne was a British writer known for poems like "Death Be Not Proud" ("Holy Sonnet 10"), "Break of Day," and other works. He was the founder of the Metaphysical Poets. Read more about Donne's life and works.
1. John Donne
by Andrew Mousley. Palgrave. From the publisher: "John Donne's writing is provocatively illuminated in this new collection of essays. The recently influential critical methods of historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis and deconstruction are variously employed to explore the adventure of Donne's generically versatile writing."
2. John Donne's Poetry
by John Donne, Arthur L. Clements (Editor). W.W. Norton. This edition includes more than 100 poems, critical essays, a selected bibliography, and indexes. From the publisher: "The text of all the poems is again that of the first seventeenth-century edition in which each poem appeared or, in the case of one Elegy and three Holy Sonnets, the Westmoreland manuscript."3. Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel
by John Donne, Izaak Walton, Andrew Motion (Preface). Knopf. From the publisher: "John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne's life and writing that, if less well known, is no less profound and beautiful."4. John Donne
by Stevie Davies. Northcote House Publishers. From the publisher: "Available for the first time in the United States a new series of innovative critical studies introducing writers and their contexts to a wide range of readers."5. John Donne: The Poems
by Joe Nutt. Palgrave. From the publisher: "John Donne's poems are some of the most challenging and stimulating in the English literary heritage. One of the Renaissance's most human voices, his reputation as a poet has grown steadily since his death in 1631, fueled by poets like Coleridge, Browning, and T.S. Eliot."6. Selected Letters
by John Donne, P. M. Oliver (Editor). Routledge. From the publisher: "Whether sharing his anxieties about his writing, consoling bereaved friends, complaining about the meanness of a patron or defending himself against malicious gossip, John Donne (1572-1631) reveals himself in his letters with a directness that can be found nowhere else in his writings."7. John Donne: The Major Works
John Donne, John Carey (Editor). Oxford. From the publisher: "This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Donne's poetry and prose... to give the essence of his work and thinking."8. The Love Poems of John Donne
by John Donne, Charles Fowkes (Editor), Charles Fawkes (Editor). St. Martin's Press. From the publisher: "John Donne's standing as one of the greatest poets in the English language is now thoroughly established, and critics such as T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis have found in Donne's poetry qualities profoundly responsive to the modern age."9. John Donne: Man of Flesh and Spirit
by David L. Edwards, John Carey (Foreword). Continuum International. From the publisher: "Edwards is not sentimental about Donne's faults and limitations, and he does not try to sound superior to either the poet or the preacher. His aim is to give a living and accurate account of a man who both suffered and gloried in his experience of flesh and spirit."10. The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
by John Donne, Denis Donoghue (Introduction). Random House. From the publisher: "Edited and compiled by the renowned Donne scholar Charles M. Coffin, this Modern Library Paperback Classics edition, containing all of Donne's poetry and the best of his prose, provides a comprehensive and accessible foray into a body of work that is as original today as it was nearly four hundred years ago."