Authority Cited: Donne; Don.
Author name and dates: John Donne (1572-1631)
BKG Bio-tweet: European traveler; Dean of St. Paul’s; known for sermons; greatest of metaphysical poets; minor poems now best known
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: About 200 Donne cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 170 cites in vol.2. All cites except manner (Donne's Letters) appear to be only to "Donne." Watkins in Johnson and English Poetry before 1660 (pp. 96-99) deduces that SJ used the 1719 edition for the poems and most letters. Watkins also notes that there is no copy of Donne listed in the Sale Catalogue of the SJ Library. Fleeman in Appendix II (II-7) of the 1975 Facsimile of the Sale Catalogue identifies a 1633 edition copy of Donne known to have been in SJ's library. However, Watkin's deductions from the quotations he examined from all editions appear plausible with respect to use of the 1719 edition. Atkinson, A.D. “Donne Quotations in Johnson’s Dictionary,” N&Q, Sept. 1, 1951, pp.387-88, notes a number of Dictionary apparent misquotations but does not state the Donne edition(s) used by Atkinson. Atkinson cites one (unnamed) quotation from Divine Poems, now added to Freed's list below, and also cites Anatomie of the World and Elegie (1611 first ed.), and The Second Anniversary (1612 first ed.) Except the last, these appear to be included in the 1719 edition title below.]
Poems on several occasions. Written by the Reverend John Donne, D. D. Late Dean of St. Paul's. With elegies on the author's death. To this edition is added, some account of the life of the author. (earlier editions: 1633, 1635, 1639, 1649, 1669) 1719, London: printed for J. Tonson, and sold by W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-noster-Row.
Letters to severall persons of honour. 1651, London : Printed by J. Flesher, for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard under the Dyall (also reissued with a 1654 title page)
Author name and dates: John Donne (1572-1631)
BKG Bio-tweet: European traveler; Dean of St. Paul’s; known for sermons; greatest of metaphysical poets; minor poems now best known
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: About 200 Donne cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 170 cites in vol.2. All cites except manner (Donne's Letters) appear to be only to "Donne." Watkins in Johnson and English Poetry before 1660 (pp. 96-99) deduces that SJ used the 1719 edition for the poems and most letters. Watkins also notes that there is no copy of Donne listed in the Sale Catalogue of the SJ Library. Fleeman in Appendix II (II-7) of the 1975 Facsimile of the Sale Catalogue identifies a 1633 edition copy of Donne known to have been in SJ's library. However, Watkin's deductions from the quotations he examined from all editions appear plausible with respect to use of the 1719 edition. Atkinson, A.D. “Donne Quotations in Johnson’s Dictionary,” N&Q, Sept. 1, 1951, pp.387-88, notes a number of Dictionary apparent misquotations but does not state the Donne edition(s) used by Atkinson. Atkinson cites one (unnamed) quotation from Divine Poems, now added to Freed's list below, and also cites Anatomie of the World and Elegie (1611 first ed.), and The Second Anniversary (1612 first ed.) Except the last, these appear to be included in the 1719 edition title below.]
Poems on several occasions. Written by the Reverend John Donne, D. D. Late Dean of St. Paul's. With elegies on the author's death. To this edition is added, some account of the life of the author. (earlier editions: 1633, 1635, 1639, 1649, 1669) 1719, London: printed for J. Tonson, and sold by W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-noster-Row.
- [Elegies]; accessory (Funeral Elegy); night-crow (XV); twilight (Funeral Elegy); unlicked (XII); weal (weale, VIII); whelps (XII, same quote as unlicked);
- [Epicedes]
- [Epthalamions]
- [Letters (in verse)]; abridgement (p.169, to the Countess of Salisbury);
- [Satires]
- [Songs and Sonnets]
- Valediction to his Book; abstract;
- [Divine Poems] (Holy Sonnets in 1721 edition)
- Donne (no work cited); poetize (may be incorrect citation; could be Daniel, The whole vvorkes of Samuel Daniel Esquire in poetrie , London : Printed by Nicholas Okes, for Simon Waterson, and are to be sold at his shoppe in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Crowne, 1623: "I versifie the troth; not poetize" in the First Book of the Civil Wars)
Letters to severall persons of honour. 1651, London : Printed by J. Flesher, for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard under the Dyall (also reissued with a 1654 title page)
- Donne's Letters [addressed to A V. Merced in 1651 edition; per Edmund Gosse in 1899 edition of the Donne Letters, A Vuestra Merced - to your Highness]; manner (p.138); [BKG note: Only one "Donne's Letters" cite by title identified in 1755 Dict.]