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Selected LettersJohn DonneEdited by P.M. Oliver10% off
Categories: 16th Century, 17th Century, Christianity, Christianity
Imprint: Fyfield Books Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (144 pages) (Pub. Apr 2002) 9781857545616 £12.95 £11.65
'I am come now not only to pay a fever every half year as a rent for my life, but I am called upon before the day, and they come sooner in the year than heretofore.'
to Mrs Ann Cockayn, January 1631
Whether sharing his anxieties about his writing, consoling bereaved friends, complaining about the meanness of a patron or defending himself against malicious gossip, John Donne reveals himself in his letters with a directness that can be found nowhere else in his writings.
The 95 letters printed here in there entirety - dating from the late 1590s until a short time before Donne's death - constitute approximately half of his surviving correspondence. Addressed to a variety of recipients, they present the author of some of the most enduringly popular English verse as father, son, husband, friend, suitor, courtier and pastor. Although what the letters reveal of Donne is far from edifying, they corroborate the impression created by his better-known writings that he was one of the most remarkable figures produced by the English Renaissance and that he possessed an extraordinarily subtle and creative intelligence.
Table of Contents
Introduction A Note on the Text The Chronology of Donne's Letters LETTERS Appendix A: Glossary of Names Appendix B: Further Reading Appendix C: Sources of the Letters Index |
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