No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From sa

The collection includes elegies to Donne by his friends and the latest textual and critical discoveries regarding the popular seventeenth-centuries poet's work.

This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbiddin