Norton Critical Edition of Donne’s satires, elegies, love lyrics, and divine poems, with notes and critical essays on metaphysical verse.
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Norton Critical Edition of Donne’s satires, elegies, love lyrics, and divine poems, with notes and critical essays on metaphysical verse.
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"This new Norton Critical Edition presents a comprehensive collection of Donne's poetry. The texts are divided into sections: "Satires," "Elegies," "Verse Letters to Several Personages," "Songs and Sonnets," and "Divine Poems." They have been scrupulously edited and are from the Westmoreland manuscript where possible - collated against the best exemplars from the most important families of Donne manuscripts: the Cambridge Balam, the Dublin Trinity, the O'Flahertie - and compared with all seven o...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Sensual love lyrics and erotic elegies; desire, seduction, undressing imagery
Violence & gore
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Death, decay, and occasional violent metaphors; not graphic combat
Profanity
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Occasional bawdy or coarse diction in satires and erotic elegies
Substance use
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Brief social mentions of wine and drinking in some poems
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA+ representation depicted
Religious content
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Holy Sonnets and divine poems center faith, sin, judgment, and salvation
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult practice or demonology content present
Political content
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Satires critique court life, society, and religious-political tensions
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide content depicted
Abuse & suffering
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Spiritual poems use conquest and ravishment as religious metaphors
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