John Donne by National Portrait Gallery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dates: 1572-1631
Nationality: British/English
Literary Periods:
Jacobean & Caroline Period, 1603-1660
Renaissance Period, 1500-1660
Literary Movements:
Metaphysical Poets
Literary Encyclopedia
on the life and works of John Donne
Biography and critical essay on the life and works of John Donne
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The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne
Miller Library PR2245.A5 P37 1994
and the Digital Donne: The Online Variorum
The Variorum is "a collaborative work drawing on the labors of over 30 scholars from the United States and abroad. The project was organized in 1980 and has enjoyed support from the National Endowment for the Humanities since 1986.
The edition’s primary aim is two-fold: to produce a newly edited critical text based on exhaustive analysis of all known manuscript and significant print sources of Donne’s poetry; to present a complete digest of critical and scholarly commentary on the poetry from Donne's time to the present." -from the introduction to Digital Donne: The Online Variorum
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John Donne: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1912-1967, compiled by John R. Roberts
John Donne: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1968-1978, compiled by John R. Roberts
John Donne: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1979-1995, compiled by John R. Roberts
John Donne Journal: Studies in the Age of Donne
This journal is indexed in MLA, where you can search for articles. Individual articles can be requested through ILLiad.