From reviews of previous volumes:
"This variorumedition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship." --Chronique
"Academic libraries and specialists in Renaissance and17th-century studies should feel compelled to own each and every volume of thisseries." -- Seventeenth Century News
"An occasion for celebration.Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the endof the twentieth century. Superb." -- Early ModernLiteraryStudies
This latest addition to the Donnevariorum, the third to appear in a projected eight-volume series, presents a newlyedited critical text of Donne's elegies and a comprehensive variorum commentary. Aswith previous volumes, Volume 2 is based on a study of all known manuscript sourcesand significant printed editions of Donne's poetry and on an examination of thecriticism and scholarship of the past four centuries.