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	title:	The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics)
	author:	John Donne
	format:	Paperback
	publisher:	Penguin Classics
	released:	October 28, 1976
	isbn:	0140422099
	isbn-13:	9780140422092

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Good poetry, mediocre edition - Rated The Poetry of John Donne - yes, yes, yes. I can't get enough of it. Producing an edition of Donne is, however, a rather more difficult task than the platonist critic tends to believe; though first printed in 1633 (I think), these poem circulated widely in manuscript form before they were ever set in the press. Donne never saw his works printed - so how can we be sure of what is the most "authoritative text"? we can't, not really, and perhaps Randall McLeod's forthcoming edition of "On his Mistress Going to Bed" - a typeset version of the poem, plus 68 manuscript facsimiles - indicates this better than anything else. Get Donne, but don't get this edition, which consistently favours the printed text, forcing the MS variations into the footnotes. I'm not sure what to reccomend in its place, unfortunately, but I imagine the Norton critical text wouldn't be too bad. The difficult with producing an edition of Donne is the ori NB that I am referring to the AJ Smith edition of Donne's poetry, first published 1976.

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Good poetry, mediocre edition - Rated 3/5
The Poetry of John Donne - yes, yes, yes. I can't get enough of it.

Producing an edition of Donne is, however, a rather more difficult task than the platonist critic tends to believe; though first printed in 1633 (I think), these poem circulated widely in manuscript form before they were ever set in the press. Donne never saw his works printed - so how can we be sure of what is the most "authoritative text"? we can't, not really, and perhaps Randall McLeod's forthcoming edition of "On his Mistress Going to Bed" - a typeset version of the poem, plus 68 manuscript facsimiles - indicates this better than anything else.

Get Donne, but don't get this edition, which consistently favours the printed text, forcing the MS variations into the footnotes. I'm not sure what to reccomend in its place, unfortunately, but I imagine the Norton critical text wouldn't be too bad.

The difficult with producing an edition of Donne is the ori

NB that I am referring to the AJ Smith edition of Donne's poetry, first published 1976.