Praise for previous volumes: "This variorum edition will bethe basis of all future Donne scholarship." -- Chronique
Thisis the 4th volume of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne to appear.This volume presents a newly edited critical text of the Holy Sonnets and acomprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's timethrough 1995. The editors identify and print both an earlier and a revised authorialsequence of sonnets, as well as presenting the scribal collection -- which containsunique authorial versions of several of the sonnets -- inscribed by Donne's friendRowland Woodward in the Westmoreland manuscript.