Best Selling Books by John Donne

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Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose wo rk by the English writer John Donne, who dedicated it to the future King Charles I. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or relapsing fever. Nathaniel Hawthorne, the great American author, cunningly, informatively, and entertainingly recounts several stories in American history. each story is told by a grandfather to his grandchildren. (Goodreads)

A selection of John Donne''s poems suitable for study at A level. This OCR-endorsed edition also contains textual notes and an OCR GCE-specific introduction.

Holy Sonnets by John Donne are a series of nineteen poems originally written in 1609-1610 and have been tied to Donne''s conversion to Anglicanism. These poems of John Donne have become some of his most highly regarded and most popular works. Included are Holy Sonnet 10 ("Death be not Proud") and Holy Sonnet 14 ("Batter my heart, three-person''d God; for you").

"Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscript and print history of Donne''s poetry, this edition presents newly edited critical texts of the poems and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne''s time forward. Textual introductions briefly locate the poems in the context of Donne''s life or poetic development, outline the 17th-century textual history of the poems, and sketch the treatment of the text by modern editors. A detailed textual apparatus presents variants collated from many sources and traces the lines of textual transmission"--Provided by publisher.

John Donne''s poems on heavenly and earthly love, delight and despair, beauty and betrayal, are rightly regarded as one of the glories of European civilisation, something every school child (and child of every age) should know