The major seventeenth-century English poet between Shakespeare and Milton, Donne is chiefly celebrated as a love poet. But he was also the author of magnificent satires and epistles, and a series of religious poems including the Holy Sonnets. All these genres are represented in this volume, together with a selection from his prayers, letters and sermons, presenting a complete portrait of a great poet an an extraordinary man.
ISBN: | 9781857157222 |
Publication date: | 26th October 1995 |
Author: | John Donne |
Publisher: | Everyman |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 256 pages |
Series: | Everyman's Library Pocket Poets |
Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Classic and pre-20th century poetry |