This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by google as part of a project to make the world’s books discoverable online It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. For this electronic volume, i have used three posthumously printed manuscripts of donne’s poetry from 1633, 1635, and 1665 as reference points, generously provided by texas a&m university The overall presentation of the poems in this book is based on the structure of those. Donne's poem onefeelsthequickeningofthebrain,thevision extending its range,the passion gathering sweepwiththe expanding rhythms,andfrom themind thus heated and inspired emerges,notacrythattimemight stayitscourse, 1according to a popular legend, certain christians escaped persecution in the second century by walling themselves up in a cave, where they slept miraculously for two centuries and then emerged unharmed
But this, all pleasures fancies be 7 which i desir'd, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee. Sixteen new essays, written by an international array of leading scholars and critics, cover donne’s poetry (erotic, satirical, devotional) and his prose (including his sermons and occasional letters). Edmund bunny corcoran writes a paper on donne in donna tartt's novel the secret history, in which he ties together donne and izaak walton with help of an imaginary philosophy called metahemeralism.
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