Author: JOHN DONNE
Title: John Donne Poets for Pleasure
Description: Oxford University Press, 1990. Paperback. Pp: 488. A comprehensive selection of Donne's works which contains, in addition to the poems, excerpts from all the prose writings, among them relatively unfamiliar items such as Donne's private letters, his comic onslaught on the Jesuits Ignatius His Conclave and his defense of suicide Biathanatos. Over 130 excerpts from the sermons are drawn from all 16 years of Donne's preaching career, culminating in the full text of his last sermon Death's duel. In the introduction, editor John Carey, author of the acclaimed critical biography John Donne: Life, mind and art locates Donne's writing in its turbulent social and historical context. ISBN: 9780192813411. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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