JOHN DONNE
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
REFERENCE & BACKGROUND INFORMATION
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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Literature Resource Center [DATABASE]BEGIN WITH A "PERSON SEARCH" FOR "DONNE JOHN"
Includes entries from Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, Twayne's Authors Series, and Scribner Writers Series -
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature section on Donne [WEB]By Herbert J. C. Grierson, M.A., Chalmers Professor of English Literature in the University of Aberdeen
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A concordance to the English poems of John Donne by Call Number: Colby PR2248 .A3 1940ISBN: 1013399579
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A Complete Concordance to the Poems of John Donne [Web]Prepared by Mary Farrington, with assistance from Carly Thompson and Laura Perrings.
RESEARCH & CRITICICSM
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.
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Books, essays, and journal articles in MLA International Bibliography [DATABASE]MLA International Bibliography is the definitive literary research database, indexing the most authoritative scholarship on John Donne from books and academic journals. MLA indexes and links to the entire JSTOR literary research collection as well as linking to many other full-text providers.
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Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new windowA database of English-language literature, containing thousands of full-text works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, as well as journals, author biographies, bibliographies, criticism, and reference resources.
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The Cambridge Companion to John Donne (2006) by The Cambridge Companion to John Donne introduces students (undergraduate and graduate) to the range, brilliance, and complexity of John Donne. Sixteen 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). Providing readings of his texts and also fully situating them in the historical and cultural context of early modern England, these essays offer the most up-to-date scholarship and introduce students to the current thinking and debates about Donne, while providing tools for students to read Donne with greater understanding and enjoyment. Special features include a chronology; a short biography; essays on political and religious contexts; an essay on the experience of reading his lyrics; a meditation on Donne by the contemporary novelist A. S. Byatt; and an extensive bibliography of editions and criticism.Call Number: Miller PR2248 .C33 2006ISBN: 0521832373 -
The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature (2003) by This 2003 book is a full-scale history of early modern English literature, offering perspectives on English literature produced in Britain between the Reformation and the Restoration. While providing the general coverage and specific information expected of a major history, its twenty-six chapters address recent methodological and interpretive developments in English literary studies. The book has five sections: 'Modes and Means of Literary Production, Circulation, and Reception', 'The Tudor Era from the Reformation to Elizabeth I', 'The Era of Elizabeth and James VI', 'The Earlier Stuart Era', and 'The Civil War and Commonwealth Era'. While England is the principal focus, literary production in Scotland, Ireland and Wales is treated, as are other subjects less frequently examined in previous histories, including women's writings and the literature of the English Reformation and Revolution. This history is an essential resource for specialists and students.Call Number: E-BookISBN: 0521631564 -
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 (2005) by Offering essays on the range of English literature produced in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this collection presents new historical perspectives and critical approaches to the classic authors and texts of the period. Neglected authors and themes, as well as new and emerging genres within the expanding print market, are discussed in their social and historical contexts. The volume also includes a complete chronology and bibliographies.Call Number: E-BookISBN: 0521781442
PRIMARY SOURCES: TEXTS
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Digital Donne: The Online VaroriumDigitalDonne is the online component of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne
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The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne (2000) by 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.Call Number: Miller PR2245.A5 P37 1994 v.2 - v.8ISBN: 0253333768
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Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new windowSee html, full-text transcriptions of Donne's works
PRIMARY SOURCES: PERIODICALS
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British Periodicals Collections This link opens in a new windowBritish Periodicals traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' . This unique digital archive provides the full text of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.
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17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new windowThe newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press", totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles.
WEB
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John Donne Society [WEB]"In its twenty-year existence, the John Donne Society has proven to be a convivial and intellectually engaging organization for students of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in general and of John Donne in particular." --from Web site