Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Rich selection of 73 works by the English "metaphysical" poet. Included are "The Good Morrow," "The Canonization," "The Relic," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "To His Mistress Going to Bed," "Death Be Not Proud," "Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward," "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness"...
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Rich selection of 73 works by the English "metaphysical" poet. Included are "The Good Morrow," "The Canonization," "The Relic," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "To His Mistress Going to Bed," "Death Be Not Proud," "Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward," "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness" and many more. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486277882 (0486277887)
ASIN: 0486277887
Publish date: 1993-12-23
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Again, as a disclaimer I have not read this particular edition of John Donne's poetry. I have however read many of the poems found in this edition and therefore find it a particularly reasonable version to use to talk about the poems I read as stand alone works.John Donne was a fascinating character...
I found several poems in this book clever, but in general I thought these poems were dispassionate and often sexist. Yes, yes, dude is really old, but even if I were to excuse the sexism based on "the times" (and I won't, but if I did...), I still wouldn't enjoy reading about it.
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