Synopses & Reviews
Rich selection of 73 works from the Songs and Sonnets, Elegies, Holy Sonnets and other verse forms by foremost English "metaphysical" poet. Included are "The Good Morrow," "The Canonization," "The Relic," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "To His Mistress Going to Bed," "Death Be Not Proud," "Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward," "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness" and many more. Note. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Song" and "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning."
Synopsis
Selection of 73 poems by the English metaphysical poet: "The Good Morrow," "The Canonization," "The Relic," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "To His Mistress Going to Bed," "Death Be Not Proud," more. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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Considered by many critics the foremost English "metaphysical" poet, John Donne (1572-1631) earned renown for both sacred and secular verse, his love poems in the latter genre ranking among his most original and popular works. Brilliant and wide-ranging, Donne's verse is distinguished by its passion, insight, and inspired use of striking metaphors or "conceits." This volume contains a rich selection of the poet's best work, including, from the Songs and Sonnets "The Good Morrow," "The Canonization," "The Relic," and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"; from the Elegies "On His Mistress" and "To His Mistress Going to Bed"; a selection from the Holy Sonnets (including "Death Be Not Proud"); "Good Friday. 1613. Riding Westward," "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness" and many more.
Synopsis
Rich selection of 73 poems: "The Good Morrow," "The Canonization," "The Relic," "Death Be Not Proud," and many more.
Synopsis
Rich selection of 73 works by the English "metaphysical" poet. Included are "The Good Morrow," "The Canonization," "The Relic," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "To His Mistress Going to Bed," "Death Be Not Proud," "Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward," "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness" and many more. Note. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.
Synopsis
Selection of 73 poems by the English metaphysical poet: "The Good Morrow," "The Canonization," "The Relic," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "To His Mistress Going to Bed," "Death Be Not Proud," more. Note.
Synopsis
Bloomsbury Poetry Classics are selections from the work of some of our greatest poets. The series is aimed at the general reader rather than the specialist and carries no critical or explanatory apparatus. This can be found elsewhere. In the series the poems introduce themselves, on an uncluttered page and in a format that is both attractive and convenient. The selections have been make by the distinguished poet, critic, and biographer Ian Hamilton.
Table of Contents
SONGS AND SONNETS
The Good Morrow
"Song ["Go, and catch a falling star"]"
Woman's Constancy
The Undertaking
The Sun Rising
The Indifferent
The Canonization
The Triple Fool
"Song ["Sweetest love, I do not go"]"
The Legacy
A Fever
Air and Angels
Break of Day
The Anniversary
"A Valediction: of My Name, in the Window"
Twickenham Garden
A Valediction: of Weeping
The Flea
The Curse
"A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day"
Witchcraft by a Picture
The Bait
The Apparition
The Broken Heart
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
The Ecstasy
Love's Deity
The Funeral
The Blossom
The Relic
A Lecture upon the Shadow
EPIGRAMS
A Burnt Ship
Fall of a Wall
Cales and Guiana
An Obscure Winter
The Liar
ELEGIES
Elegy I: Jealousy
Elegy II: The Anagram
Elegy V: His Picture
Elegy IX: The Autumnal
Elegy XVI: On His Mistress
Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed
EPITHALAMIONS
"An Epithalamion, or Marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine Being Married on St. Valentines Day"
SATIRES
"Satire I ["Away thou fondling motley humorist"]"
"Satire III ["Kind pity chokes my spleen; brave scorn forbids"]"
VERSE LETTERS
To Mr. Christopher Brooke
The Storm
The Calm
"To Mr. Rowland Woodward ["Like one who in her third widowhood doth profess"]"
To the Countess of Bedford on New Year's Day
EPICEDES AND OBSEQUIES
Elegy on the Lady Markham
DIVINE POEMS
La Corona
Holy Sonnets
I "["Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?"]"
II "["As due by many titles I resign"]"
III "["O might those sighs and tears return again"]"
IV "["O my black soul! now thou art summoned"]"
V "["I am a little world made cunningly"]"
VI "["This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint"]"
VII "["At the round earth's imagined corners, blow"]"
VIII "["If faithful souls be alike glorified"]"
IX "["If poisonous minerals, and if that tree"]"
X "["Death be not proud, though some have called thee"]"
XI "["Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side"]"
XII "["Why are we by all creatures waited on?"]"
XIII "["What if this present were the world's last night?"]"
XIV "["Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you"]"
XV "["Wilt thou love God, as he thee? then digest"]"
XVI "["Father, part of his double intrest"]"
XVII "["Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt"]"
XVIII "["Show me dear Christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear"]"
XIX "["Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one"]"
"Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward"
"A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany"
"Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness"
A Hymn to God the Father
Alphabetical List of Titles
Alphabetical List of First Lines