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This anthology poems by John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell and Thoma

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Variable, and therefore miserable condition of man! this minute I was well, and am ill, this minute. I am surprised with a sudden change, and alteration to worse, and can impute it to no cause, nor call it by any name. We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats, and drink, and air, and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and a regular work: but in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity; nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant. O miserable condition of man! which was not imprinted by God, who, as he is immortal himself, had put a coal, a beam of immortality into us, which we might have blown into a flame, but blew it out by our first sin; we beggared ourselves by hearkening after false riches, and infatuated ourselves by hearkening after false knowledge. So that now, we do not only die, but die upon the rack, die by the torment of sickness; nor that only, but are pre-afflicted, super-afflicted with these jealousies and suspicions and apprehensions of sickness, before we can call it a sickness: we are not sure we are ill; one hand asks the other by the pulse, and our eye asks our own urine how we do. O multiplied misery! we die, and cannot enjoy death, because we die in this torment of sickness; we are tormented with sickness, and cannot stay till the torment come, but pre-apprehensions and presages prophesy those torments which induce that death before either come; and our dissolution is conceived in these first changes, quickened in the sickness itself, and born in death, which bears date from these first changes. Is this the honour which man hath by being a little world, that he hath these earthquakes in himself, sudden shakings; these lightnings, sudden flashes; these thunders, sudden noises; these eclipses, sudden offuscations and darkening of his senses; these blazing stars, sudden fiery exhalations; these rivers of blood, sudden red waters? Is he a world to himself only therefore, that he hath enough in himself, not only to destroy and execute himself, but to presage that execution upon himself; to assist the sickness, to antedate the sickness, to make the sickness the more irremediable by sad apprehensions, and, as if he would make a fire the more vehement by sprinkling water upon the coals, so to wrap a hot fever in cold melancholy, lest the fever alone should not destroy fast enough without this

The leading poet of the Metaphysical school, John Donne is often considered the greatest love poet of the English language. His poetical works are noted for their metaphorical and sensual style, including sonnets, love poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs and satires. Donne is also noted for his religious verse and treatises and for his sermons, which rank among the finest examples of the seventeenth century. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents the complete works of John Donne, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Donne’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major works * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * The complete prose, with rare texts like ''Essays in Divinity'' and ''Biathanatos'', appearing for the first time in digital print * Includes Donne’s letters –explore the poet’s personal correspondence * Features four biographies, including Izaak Walton’s famous contemporary memoir * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with the complete Prose, corrected texts, more images and Leslie Stephen’s biography CONTENTS: The Poetry Collections Songs and Sonnets (1607-1635) Elegies (1607-1635) Divine Poems (1607) Holy Sonnets (1610) Other Divine Poems (c. 1610) Satires (1650) Marriage Songs (1652) Verse Letters (1652) Epicedes and Obsequies (1652) Epigrams (1652) Infinitati Sacrum (1652) The Anniversaries (1652) Latin Poems (1652) Doubtful Verses The Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Prose Biathanatos (1608) Pseudo-Martyr (1610) Ignatius His Conclave (1611) Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624) Death’s Duel (1630) Essays in Divinity (1651) Paradoxes (1652) Problems (1652) The Letters List of Letters The Biographies The Life of Dr. John Donne (1640) by Izaak Walton John Donne (1898) by Leslie Stephen John Donne (1916) by Arthur Symons John Donne (1920) by Robert Lynd

A scholarly edition of works by John Donne. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus. -- Publisher''s description.

The poetry of Donne in a convenient pocket volume.