John Donne

Janel Mueller is the William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Department of English and the College, The University of Chicago. She is the former editor of Modern Philology and the former dean of the Division of the Humanities at Chicago. She has published on a range of subjects in English Reformation and Renaissance literature, focusing particularly on the writings of Elizabeth I and Katherine Parr.

• Introduction A Note on Editorial Practices A Selective Chronology of Donne's Life FROM THE WESTMORELAND MANUSCRIPT, PRE-1599 COMPOSITIONS Satires (Satyra) Elegies (Elegia) Epithalamium Verse Letters to Male Friends Paradoxes Epigrams To a Jet ring sent to me FROM THE BURLEY MANUSCRIPT, LETTERS CONCERNING HIS MARRIAGE (1602) THE FIRST AND SECOND ANNIVERSARIES (FIRST EDITION, 1612) To the Praise of the Dead, and the Anatomy The First Anniversary. An Anatomie of the World A Funerall Elegie The Harbinger to the Progres The Second Anniversarie. Of the Progres of the Soule FROM THE DOWDEN MANUSCRIPT, POEMS COMPOSED BEFORE THE END OF 1614 Elegies The Calme Verse Letters to Male Friends Verse Letters to Noble Ladies La Corona Holy Sonnets The Crosse The Annuntiation The Litanye Goodfriday. 1613. Riding towards Wales Songs and Sonnets An Epithalamion or Maryage Song, on the Lady Elisabeth, and Frederick Count Palatine, beeing maryed on Saint Valentines day Eclogue. 1613. December 26 Epithalamion Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Countesse of Bedford FROM THE WESTMORELAND MANUSCRIPT, RELIGIOUS LYRICS (1607-1620) DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONS (FIRST EDITION, 1624)

Janel Mueller's excellent edition is at once an accessible opening up of Donne's verse and prose for the modern reader, and a rich exploration of the material forms in which Donne's writing originally circulated. Mueller's generous notes, and a lightly modernised text, help readers with questions of genre, historical context, and biography, while facsimiles of manuscripts and printed editions, and discussions of early readers and later editorial responses, convey some of the latest research on the history of reading and of the material text.