LibGuides: AUTHORS: JOHN DONNE

JOHN DONNE

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

Scribner Writers Series

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
A Complete Concordance to the Poems of John Donne [WEB]
Prepared by Mary Farrington, with assistance from Carly Thompson and Laura Perrings.
A Concordance to the English Poems of John Donne by Homer Carroll Combs and Zay Rusk Sullens [BOOK]
Storage PR2248 .A3 1940

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.

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.
Journal articles in Literature Online (LION) [DATABASE]
Browse all Colby Libraries materials on John Donne
The Cambridge Companion to John Donne edited by Achsah Guibbory [BOOK]
Miller Library PR2248 .C33 2006
Browse all Colby materials on Early Modern British Literature
The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature [E-BOOK]
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This is the first full-scale history of early modern English literature in nearly a century. It offers new 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.
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 [E-BOOK]

PRIMARY SOURCES: TEXTS

The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne edited by Gary A. Stringer [BOOK SET]
Miller Library PR2245.A5 P37 1994
Digital Donne: The Online Varorium
DigitalDonne is the online component of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne
Literature Online (LION) [DATABASE]
See html, full-text transcriptions of Donne's works
Early English Books Online (EEBO) [DATABASE]
Browse authors for Donne, John.

PRIMARY SOURCES: PERIODICALS

Burney Collection of 17th and 18th Century Newspapers [DATABASE]
The 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.
British Periodicals Online [DATABASE]
British 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.

WEB

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