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2001 SCMLA Book Prize winner
The newest volume in the critical variorum of the poetry of John Donne
"In this third volume in a projected eight-volume series, Stringer presents the most authoritative texts and fullest editorial history of the elegies, including textual apparatus from all known manuscripts and editions from the 17th century onward, and also a comprehensive summary of scholarly and critical commentary on the elegies (also from Donne's era onward). The remarkable insights in the textual/editorial component include identification of the most authoritative manuscript for the elegies (housed in the New York Public Library) and a persuasive speculation that the first 12 elegies in this manuscript reflect Donne's intended sequence. Critical insights reveal the early trend not to treat the elegies as a separate group but to integrate them into a discussion of Donne's amatory verse; the value of using the elegies as context for Donne's later amatory verse, notably Songs and Sonnets; moralistic and biographical readings, which sometimes characterize Donne as a libertine and denounce him for licentiousness; Donne as the first poet to write love elegies in English; the coteries for which the elegies were written and the scribal culture that copied and recopied them for presentation to such audiences of intellectuals. The volume contains five indexes and the most comprehensive bibliography on the elegies now available. Indispensable for large collections supporting 17th–century literature." —A. C. Labriola, Duquesne University , Choice , February 2001
Previously announced
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne
Volume 2. The Elegies
Gary A. Stringer, General Editor. Ted-Larry Pebworth, Gary A. Stringer, and Ernest W. Sullivan,
II, Text Editors. John R. Roberts, Volume Commentary Editor. Diana Benet, Contributing Editor
The newest volume in the critical variorum of the poetry of John Donne.
From reviews of previous volumes:
"This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship." —Chronique
"Academic libraries and specialists in Renaissance and 17th-century studies should feel compelled to own each and every volume of this series." —Seventeenth Century News
"An occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century. Superb." —Early Modern Literary
Studies
This latest addition to the Donne variorum, the third to appear in a projected eight-volume series, presents a newly edited critical text of Donne’s elegies and a comprehensive variorum commentary. As with previous volumes, Volume 2 is based on a study of all known manuscript sources and significant printed editions of Donne’s poetry and on an examination of the criticism and scholarship of the past four centuries.
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne—Gary A. Stringer, General Editor
Also available:
Volume 6. The Anniversaries and Epicedes and Obsequies. Ted-Larry Pebworth, John T.
Shawcross, Gary A. Stringer, and Ernest W. Sullivan, II, Text Editors. Paul A. Parrish, Volume
Commentary Editor. Donald R. Dickson and Dennis Flynn, Contributing Editors.
1995; 752 pp, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, intro., works cited, indexes, LC 93-11800
Volume 8. The Epigrams, Epithalamions, Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Miscellaneous Poems. Ted-
Larry Pebworth, Gary A. Stringer, and Ernest W. Sullivan, II, Text Editors. William A. McClung,
Volume Commentary Editor. Jeffrey Johnson, Contributing Editor.
1996; 576 pp, intro., works cited, indexes, LC 93-11800
Gary A. Stringer is Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. Editor of volumes 4-9 of Explorations in Renaissance Culture, he has published essays on Donne, Milton, Dryden, and others, and has edited New Essays on Donne and co-edited a special issue of the South Central Review on John Donne. He is a former chair of the Committee on Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association and a past president of the South Central Modern Language Association.
Ted-Larry Pebworth is William E. Stirton Professor in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is author of Owen Felltham; co-author of Ben Jonson; and co-editor of The
Poems of Owen Felltham and Selected Poems of Ben Jonson and of collections of essays on Herbert, on Jonson and the Sons of Ben, on Donne, on the seventeenth-century religious lyric, on poetry and politics in the
seventeenth century, on Marvell, on Renaissance discourses of desire, and on representing women in the Renaissance. He is a past president of the John Donne Society.
Ernest W. Sullivan, II, is Edward S. Diggs Professor of English at Virginia Tech. He is editor of Biathanatos by John Donne, The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others, and The Harmony of the Muses, as well as author of The Influence of John
Donne: His Uncollected Seventeenth-Century Printed Verse. Sullivan is also the General Textual Editor of the Collected Works of Abraham Cowley. He is a past president of the John Donne Society.
John R. Roberts is Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is author or editor of ten books, including John Donne: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1912-1967; John Donne: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1968-1978; and
Essential Articles for the Study of John Donne's Poetry. In addition, he has published annotated bibliographies of modern criticism of the poetry of Richard Crashaw and George Herbert, as well as essays on Donne, Southwell, Crashaw, Herbert, the English Recusants, and bibliography.
Roberts is a past president of the John Donne Society and the recipient of an award from the Society for his "lifelong contribution to Donne studies."
Diana Trevio Benet is Visiting Professor at Columbia University. She is author of books on George Herbert and Barbara Pym and coeditor of Literary Milton, the 1995 recipient of the Milton Society's Irene Samuel Award. She
has published articles on Jonson, Donne, Crashaw, Carew, Marvell, and others, and is a past president of the John Donne Society and of the Milton Society of America.
Theodore J. Sherman is Assistant Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, where he teaches bibliography, Renaissance literature, freshman writing, and sophomore English. He is at work on a facsimile
edition of the Westmoreland manuscript of the poetry and prose of John Donne.
Dennis Flynn is Professor of English at Bentley College, where he teaches freshman writing, Horace, Thomas More, and Shakespeare. He is author of John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility and has published several
essays on Donne. He is a member of the Donne Variorum Advisory Board and of the Editorial Board of the John Donne Journal.
Theodore J. Sherman is Assistant Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, where he teaches bibliography, Renaissance literature, freshman writing, and sophomore English. He is at work on a facsimile
edition of the Westmoreland manuscript of the poetry and prose of John Donne.
Paul A Parrish is Professor of English at Texas A&M University, where he teaches courses on Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature. He is the author of Richard Crashaw and the editor of Celebration: Introduction to Literature, and has published articles on Donne, Crashaw, George Gascoigne, Ralph Ellison, and other Renaissance and modern writers. Parrish is a former Executive Director and president of the South Central
Modern language Association; a former president of Phi Beta Delta, the Honor Society for International Scholars; and a past president of the John Donne Society.
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Publication date: 10/1/2000
