John Donne by Janel Mueller

John Donne by Janel Mueller

The John Donne volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers a wholly new edition of Donne's verse and prose. It consists of a selection of the compositions that circulated in manuscript or in print form during Donne's lifetime. In keeping with the approach of the series, the texts are presented in chronological order and the text chosen is, wherever possible, the text of the first published version. Each text is paired with a generous complement of historical and textual annotation, which enables the present day reader to access the excitement with which Donne's contemporaries, his first readers, discovered his famous and incomparable originality, audacity, ingenuity, and wit. The edition incorporates new directions and emphases in scholarly editing that are foregrounded in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series, such as the history of readership and the history of texts as material objects.

Editing Donne's poetry is a challenge.. Short of reading the original manuscripts or facsimiles, this edition brings you about as close as possible to Donne's poems as they would have appeared to at least some of their first readers. Since the two manuscripts havenât been printed in their entirety before, the book has the additional merit of providing something new. * Tobias Gregory, London Review of Books *
For drawing attention once more to this exquisite oeuvre, Mueller is to be heartily commended by all lovers of the English language. * Patrick J. Murray, The Times Literary Supplement *
This edition is useful * GRAAT Anglophone Studies *

Janel Mueller is the William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Department of English and the College, The University of Chicago. She is the former editor of Modern Philology and the former dean of the Division of the Humanities at Chicago. She has published on a range of subjects in English Reformation and Renaissance literature, focusing particularly on the writings of Elizabeth I and Katherine Parr.

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ISBN 13	9780199596560
ISBN 10	0199596565
Title	John Donne
Author	Janel Mueller
Series	21st-Century Oxford Authors
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2015-07-16
Number of pages	644
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