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    The Complete English Poems

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    by John Donne, A. J. Smith (Introduction)

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    John Donne was born into a Catholic family in 1572. After a conventional education at Hart Hall, Oxford and Lincoln's Inn, he took part in the Earl of Essex's expedition to the Azores in 1597. He secretly married Anne More in December 1601 and was imprisoned by her father, Sir George, in the Fleet two months later. He was ordained priest in January 1615 and took a Doctorate of Divinity at Cambridge the same year. He was made Dean of St Paul's in London in 1621, a position he held until his death in 1631. He is famous for the sermons he preached in his later years, as well as for his poems.

    A.J. Smith was Professor Emeritus of the University of Southampton. His book include Literary Love (1983) and Metaphysical Wit (1992). He died in Salisbury in 1991.

    Table of Contents

    The Complete English PoemsPreface
    Table of Dates
    Further Reading
    A Note on the Metre
    Songs and Sonnets
    Air and Angels
    The Anniversary
    The Apparition
    The Bait
    The Blossom
    Break of Day
    The Broken Heart
    The Canonization
    Community
    The Computation
    Confined Love
    The Curse
    The Damp
    The Dissolution
    The Dream
    The Ecstasy
    The Expiration
    Farewell to Love
    A Fever
    The Flea
    The Funeral
    The Good Morrow
    The Indifferent
    A Jet Ring Sent
    A Lecture upon the Shadow
    The Legacy
    Lovers' Infiniteness
    Love's Alchemy
    Love's Deity
    Love's Diet
    Love's Exchange
    Love's Growth
    Love's Usury
    The Message
    Negative Love
    A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy's Day
    The Paradox
    The Primrose
    The Prohibition
    The Relic
    Self Love
    Song (Go, and catch a falling star)
    Song (Sweetest love, I do not go)
    Sonnet. The Token
    The Sun Rising
    The Triple Fool
    Twicknam Garden
    The Undertaking
    A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
    A Valediction: of the Book
    A Valediction: of my Name in the Window
    A Valediction: of Weeping
    The Will
    Witchcraft by a Picture
    Woman's Constancy

    Elegies
    1. Jealousy
    2. The Anagram
    3. Change
    4. The Perfume
    5. His Picture
    6. Oh, let me not serve so
    7. Nature's lay idiot
    8. The Comparison
    9. The Autumnal
    10. The Dream
    11. The Bracelet
    12. His Parting from Her
    13. Julia
    14. A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife
    15. The Expostulation
    16. On his Mistress
    17. Variety
    18. Love's Progress
    19. To his Mistress Going to Bed
    20. Love's War
    Sappho to Philaenis

    Epithalamions or Marriage Songs
    Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn
    An Epithalamion, or Marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine being Married on St. Valentine's Day
    Eclogue 1613. December 26
    Epithalamion

    Epigrams
    Hero and Leander
    Pyramus and Thisbe
    Niobe
    A Burnt Ship
    Fall of a Wall
    A Lame Beggar
    Cales and Guiana
    Sir John Wingfield
    A Self Accuser
    A Licentious Person
    Antiquary
    Disinherited
    Phryne
    An Obscure Writer
    Klockius
    Raderus
    Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus
    Ralphius
    The Liar
    Manliness

    Satires
    1. Away thou fondling motley humourist
    2. Sir; though (I thank God for it) I do hate
    3. Kind pity chokes my spleen
    4. Well; I may now receive, and die
    5. Thou shalt not laugh in this leaf, Muse
    Upon Mr. Thoms Coryat's Crudities

    The Progress of the Soul (Metempsychosis)
    Verse Letters
    The Storm
    The Calm
    To Mr. B. B.
    To Mr. C. B.
    To Mr. S. B.
    To Mr. E. G.
    To Mr. I. L. (Blessed are your north parts)
    To Mr. I. L. (Of that short roll of friends)
    To Mr. R. W. (If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be)
    To Mr. R. W. (Kindly I envy thy song's perfection)
    To Mr. R. W. (Muse not that by thy mind thy body is led)
    To Mr. R. W. (Zealously my Muse doth salute all thee)
    To Mr. Rowland Woodward
    To Mr. T. W. (All hail, sweet poet)
    To Mr. T. W. (At once, from hence)
    To Mr. T. W. (Haste thee harsh verse)
    To Mr. T. W. (Pregnant again with th' old twins)
    To Sir Henry Goodyer
    A Letter Written by Sir H. G. and J. D. alternis vicibus
    To Sir Henry Wotton (Here's no more news)
    To Sir Henry Wotton (Sir, more than kisses)
    To Sir Henry Wotton, at his going Ambassador to Venice
    H. W. in Hibernia Belligeranti
    To Sir Edward Herbert, at Juliers
    To Mrs. M. H.
    To the Countess of Bedford at New Year's Tide
    To the Countess of Bedford (Honour is so sublime perfection)
    To the Countess of Bedford (Reason is our soul's left hand)
    To the Countess of Bedford (Though I be dead)
    To the Countess of Bedford (To have written then)
    To the Countess of Bedford (You have refined me)
    To the Lady Bedford
    Epitaph on Himself
    A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mistress Essex Rich, from Amiens
    To the Countess of Huntingdon (Man to God's image)
    To the Countess of Huntingdon (That unripe side of earth)
    To the Countess of Salisbury

    Epicedes and Obsequies
    Elegy on the L. C.
    Elegy on the Lady Markham
    An Elegy upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred
    Elegy upon the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Henry
    Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Lady Lucy, Countess of Bedford
    An Hymn to the Saints, and to Marquis Hamilton

    The Anniversaries
    An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary
    To the Praise of the Dead, and the Anatomy
    An Anatomy of the World
    A Funeral Elegy
    Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
    The Harbinger to the Progress
    Of the Progress of the Soul

    Divine Poems
    To E. of D. with Six Holy Sonnets
    To Mrs. Magdalen Herbert: of St. Mary Magdalen
    Holy Sonnets
    La Corona
    Divine Meditations
    1. Thou hast made me
    2. As due by many titles
    3. O might those sighs and tears
    4. Oh my black soul!
    5. I am a little world
    6. This is my play's last scene
    7. At the round earth's imagined corners
    8. If faithful souls be alike glorified
    9. If poisonous minerals
    10. Death be not proud
    11. Spit in my face ye Jews
    12. Whyare we by all creatures waited on?
    13. What if this present were the world's last night?
    14. Batter my heart, three-personed God
    15. Wilt thou love God, as he thee?
    16. Father, part of his double interest
    17. Since she whom I loved
    18. Show me dear Christ
    19. Oh, to vex me
    A Litany
    The Cross
    Resurrection, imperfect
    Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608
    Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
    To Mr. Tilman after he had taken orders
    Upon the Translation of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney, and the Countess of Pembroke his Sister
    The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part according to Tremellius
    A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's last going into Germany
    Hymn to God my God, in my Sickness
    A Hymn to God the Father

    Notes
    Index of Titles
    Index of First Lines

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    'The first poet in the world in some things', is how John Donne was described by his contemporary Ben Jonson. 

    Yet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet—and even, many feel, the greatest love poet of them all. Jonson went on to remark that 'That Donne, for not keeping of an accent, deserved hanging', yet Donne's rhythms, once thought 'unmusical' are now recognized as the natural rhythms of the speaking voice; his 'eccentricity' as a complex self-doubt; his 'obscurity' the reflection of a brilliantly learned and allusive mind. Poets such as Eliot and Empson have found Donne's poetry profoundly attuned to our modern age, while Yeats' glowing comment will always be true: 'the intricacy and subtlety of his imagination are the length and depth of the furrow made by his passion.' 

    This volume, superbly edited by Professor Smith, is the first complete edition to make a serious attempt to guide the reader closely through the complexities of Donne's poetry. Considerable attention has been paid to the text, and a selection of the important manuscript variants are included. This edition is also the first to make use of the newly discovered manuscript of the verse letter to Lady Carey and Mistress Essex Rich.

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