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This is the second Volume of two.
Volume I contains the Poems and Line Notes, showing textual and punctuatondifferences between the various MSS. and Editons and the Index of First Lines.Volume II contains the Introduction and Commentary, Annotational Notes for thePoems of Vol. I, and the Index of First Lines for poems quoted in Vol. II.There are links between the Poems and the Commentary Notes, with variousreferences back and forth. These links are designed to work when the books areread on line. For information on the downloading of both interlinked volumesso that the links work when the files are on your own computer, see theTranscriber's Note at the end of this book.
The rest of the Transcriber's Note is at the end of the book.
EDITED FROM THE OLD EDITIONS AND NUMEROUS MANUSCRIPTS,
WITH INTRODUCTIONS & COMMENTARY
BY
HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON M.A.
CHALMERS PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
VOL. II
INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY
OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1912
HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK
TORONTO AND MELBOURNE
| PAGE | ||
| INTRODUCTION | v | |
| I. | The Poetry of Donne | v |
| II. | The Text and Canon of Donne's Poems | lvi |
| COMMENTARY | 1 | |
| INDEX OF FIRST LINES | 276 | |
THE POETRY OF DONNE
Donne's position among English poets, regarded from thehistorical and what we like to call scientific point