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.

• FROM THE WESTMORELAND MANUSCRIPT, PRE-1599 COMPOSITIONS; FROM THE BURLEY MANUSCRIPT, LETTERS CONCERNING HIS MARRIAGE (1602); THE FIRST AND SECOND ANNIVERSARIES (FIRST EDITION, 1612); FROM THE DOWDEN MANUSCRIPT, POEMS COMPOSED BEFORE THE END OF 1614; FROM THE WESTMORELAND MANUSCRIPT, RELIGIOUS LYRICS (1607-1620); DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONS (FIRST EDITION, 1624)

Editing Donne's poetry is a challenge ... Short of reading the original manuscripts or facsimiles, this edition brings you about as close as possible to Donne's poems as they would have appeared to at least some of their first readers. Since the two manuscripts havenât been printed in their entirety before, the book has the additional merit of providing something new.