Poetical Works (Oxford Standard Authors: John Donne)

This volume contain all the poems believed to be genuine, with, in an appendix, those which were attributed to Donne so early and for so long that it did not seem justifiable to omit them altogether. The textual notes record the variants of the old editions with indications of the manuscript evidence.

Sir Herbert Grierson (1866-1960), scholar, first professor of English literature at Aberdeen University, 1894-195; professor of rhetoric and English literature at Edinburgh University 1915-35. His books include Metaphysical and Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century (1921); The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse (1934, with G. Bullough); co-editor of 12-vol. edition of Sir Walter Scott's letters (1932-37) and published a biography of Scott (1938).