Michael Schoenfeldt is John R. Knott, Jr Collegiate Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His previous publications include Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton (Cambridge, 2000), and The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Poetry (Cambridge, 2010); and as editor, A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets (2006).

• List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Chronology Kentston Bauman; Abbreviations; Introduction Michael Schoenfeldt; 1. Donne's literary career Patrick Cheney; 2. Donne's texts and materials Piers Brown; 3. Donne and print Katherine Rundell; 4. Language Douglas Trevor; 5. Donne's poetics of obstruction Kimberly Johnson; 6. Elegies and satires Melissa E. Sanchez; 7. The unity of the Songs and Sonnets Richard Strier; 8. Divine poems David Marno; 9. Letters James Daybell; 10. Orality and performance Ilona Bell; 11. Reading and interpretation Katrin Ettenhuber; 12. Education Adrew Wallace; 13. Law Gregory Kneidel; 14. Donne's prisons Molly Murray; 15. Donne and the natural world Rebecca Bushnell; 16. Money David Landreth; 17. Sexuality Catherine Bates; 18. Donne and the passions Christopher Tilmouth; 19. Pain Joseph Campana; 20. Medicine Stephen Pender; 21. Science, alchemy, and the new philosophy Margaret Healy; 22. Donne and skepticism Anita Gilman Sherman; 23. The metaphysics of the metaphysicals Gordon Teskey; 24. Controversial prose Andrew Hadfield; 25. Devotional prose Brooke Conti; 26. The sermons Lori Anne Ferrell; 27. The self Nancy Selleck; 28. Portraits Sarah Howe; 29. Donne in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Nicholas D. Nace; 30. Donne in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries James Longenbach; 31. Donne in the twenty-first century: thinking feeling Linda Gregerson; Further reading; Index.

'This collection will surely become an essential item on university and higher education reading lists. All undergraduate and postgraduate students of Donne will find stimulating material here on his songs and sonnets, elegies, satires and philosophical and divine poems … While this volume will certainly become essential student reading it also has much to offer to the many admirers of Donne's writings and reputation outside academia.' Michael Brennan, The Seventeenth Century