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Title	:	The Songs and Sonets of John Donne
Author	:	John Donne
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Second Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 374 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2009 by Harvard University Press (first published 1633)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. European Literature. British Literature. Literature. 17th Century

The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

John Donne

Paperback | Pages: 374 pages

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There is perhaps no superior edition of Donne's Songs and Sonets than Theodore Redpath's wonderful annotated volume. Out of print for a decade, the book is reprinted here in its second, revised edition. The book's twofold origin is evident on every page of Redpath's limpid commentary: it arises partly out of a life of scholarship and partly from Redpath's experiences and concerns as a teacher. The volume contains notes "on every point likely to cause difficulty to a reader of average intelligence."

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Original Title:	The Songs and Sonets of John Donne
ISBN:	0674032470 (ISBN13: 9780674032477)
Edition Language:	English

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every single poem in this volume makes you tremble and shed tears, I can't even choose one as my favorite, I fell in love with Donne, I love him more than Shakespeare, I'm planning to read his elegies and sermons and satires too.you MUST read Donne."

While these poems are noted for their sexuality, I've always felt they encompass both sex and love in their widest senses. I wrote part of my college thesis on "The Exstasie", and over the past fifty years I've loved and admired these poems.

This is a review of Donne's poems, not the critical edition.With the possible exceptions of Shakespeare in the sonnets and Adrienne Rich in 21 Love Poems, no poet surpasses Donne's engagement with the complications of erotic love in the Songs and Sonets. (Faced with the more than slightly problematic implications of his youthful lust-life, he would later turn to broader notions of love in the Holy Sonets.) For example, from"The Extasie":Our hands were firmly cemented With a fast balme, which

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I love anything by John Donne. I had a beautiful edition of his poetry that I kept locked in my classroom, and a student somehow stole it. I'll never be able to replace that exact edition, but I plan to find another edition of his poetry soon. He was a genius.

John Donne was an English poet, preacher and a major representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works are notable for their realistic and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially as compared to that ofI can only admire when I read the poems by John Donne and then try reelin into the depths of his detailed imagination that was well beyond the comprehension of his time and still remains the same for the most. This edition of his Songs and Sonnets is wonderful and as rightly asserted in the introduction, an authentic one.

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