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Born in January 22, 1572 / Died in March 31, 1631 / United Kingdom / English

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PUBLICATIONS

  • Psevdo-Martyr (London: Printed by W. Stansby for Walter Burre, 1610).
  • Conclaue Ignati (London, 1611); translated as Ignatius his Conclaue (London: Printed by N. O. for Richard More, 1611).
  • An anatomy of the World (London: Printed for Samuel Macham, 1611).
  • The Second Anniuersarie. Of The Progres of the Soule, published with The First Anniuersarie. An Anatomie of the World (London: Printed by M. Bradwood for S. Macham, 1612).
  • A Sermon Vpon The XV. Verse Of The XX. Chapter Of The Booke Of Ivdges (London: Printed by William Stansby for Thomas Jones, 1622).
  • A Sermon Vpon The VIII. Verse Of The I. Chapter of The Acts Of The Apostles (London: Printed by A. Mat for Thomas Jones, 1622).
  • Encænia. The Feast of Dedication. Celebrated At Lincolnes Inne, in a Sermon there upon Ascension day, 1623 (London: Printed by Aug. Mat. for Thomas Jones, 1623).
  • Three Sermons Vpon Speciall Occasions (London: Printed for Thomas Jones, 1623).
  • Devotions Vpon Emergent Occasions (London: Printed by A. M. for Thomas Jones, 1624).
  • The First Sermon Preached To King Charles (London: Printed by A. M. for Thomas Jones, 1625).
  • Fovre Sermons Vpon Speciall Occasions (London: Printed for Thomas Jones, 1625).
  • A Sermon, Preached To The Kings Mtie. At Whitehall, 24. Febr. 1625 (London: Printed for Thomas Jones, 1626).
  • Five Sermons Vpon Speciall Occasions (London: Printed for Thomas Jones, 1626).
  • A Sermon Of Commemoration Of The Lady Dãuers (London: Printed by I. H. for Philemon Stephens & Christopher Meredith, 1627).
  • Deaths Dvell (London: Printed by Thomas Harper for Richard Redmer & Benjamin Fisher, 1632).
  • Ivvenilia (London: Printed by E. P. for Henry Seyle, 1633).
  • Poems (London: Printed by M. F. for John Marriot, 1633).
  • Six Sermons Vpon Severall Occasions (London: Printed by the Printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, sold by Nicholas Fussell & Humphrey Mosley, 1634).
  • Sapientia Clamitans (London: Printed by I. Haviland for R. Milbourne, 1638).
  • Wisdome crying out to Sinners (London: Printed by M. P. for John Stafford, 1639).
  • LXXX Sermons (London: Printed for Richard Royston & Richard Marriot, 1640).
  • BIATHANATO A Declaration of that Paradoxe, or Thesis that Selfe-homicide is not so Naturally Sinne, that it may never be otherwise (London: Printed by John Dawson, 1647).
  • Essayes in Divinity (London: Printed by T. M. for Richard Marriot, 1651).

EDITIONS

  • Fifty Sermons (London: Printed by Ja. Flesher for M. F. J. Marriot & R. Royston, 1649).
  • XXVI. Sermons (London: Printed by T. N. for James Magnes, 1660).
  • The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Pauls 1621-1631, With a memoir of his life, 6 volumes, edited by Henry Alford (London: John W. Parker, 1839).
  • The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne, with a memoir, edited by James Russell Lowell (Boston: Little, Brown, 1855).
  • The Poems of John Donne, edited by E. K. Chambers (London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1896).
  • The Life and Letters of John Donne, 2 volumes, edited by Edmund Gosse (London: Heinemann, 1899).
  • The Love Poems of John Donne, edited by Charles Eliot Norton (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1905).
  • The Poems of John Donne, edited by Herbert J. C. Grierson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912).
  • Donne's Sermons: Selected Passages, edited, with an introduction, by Logan Pearsall Smith (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1919).
  • The Poems of John Donne, edited by Hugh I'Anson Fausset (London & Toronto: Dent, 1931).
  • The Complete Poems of John Donne, edited by Roger E. Bennett (Chicago: Packard, 1942).
  • The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, edited by Charles M. Coffin (New York: Modern Library, 1952).
  • Essays in Divinity, edited by Evelyn M. Simpson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952).
  • The Sermons of John Donne, 10 volumes, edited by George R. Potter and Simpson (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953-1962).
  • John Donne: The Anniversaries, edited by F. Manley (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1963).
  • John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels. With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations, edited by Simpson (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963).
  • The Complete Poetry of John Donne, edited by John T. Shawcross (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967).
  • Donne's Prebend Sermons, edited by Janel M. Mueller (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971).
  • John Donne: The Complete English Poems, edited by A. J. Smith (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1971).
  • Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, edited by Anthony Raspa (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1975).
  • Biathanatos, edited by Ernest W. Sullivan II (Newark: University of Delaware Press / London: Associated University Presses, 1984).
  • John Donne, edited by John Carey (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).

DIGITAL EDITIONS

  • DigitalDonne: the Online Variorum, general editor Gary A. Stringer, Texas A&M University, http://digitaldonne.tamu.edu
  • John Donne's Sermons, project editor Kimberly Johnson, Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library: http://lib.byu.edu/digital//donne/

LETTERS

  • Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, edited by John Donne, Jr. (London: Printed by J. Flesher for Richard Marriott, 1651); facsimile, introduction by M. Thomas Hester (Delmar, N.Y.: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977).
  • A Collection of Letters, Made by Sr Tobie Mathews, Kt., edited by John Donne, Jr. (London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1660).


With the exception of the Anniversaries, almost none of Donne's poems were published during his lifetime; only one poem survives in his holograph. The texts for all others derive from more than two hundred pieces of manuscript evidence, the majority of which are catalogued by Peter Beal in Index to English Literary Manuscripts, volume one (London: R. R. Bowker, 1980). A forthcoming project under the general editorship of Gary Stringer, The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, aims to account for the complete textual and critical history of Donne's poems.