ABSTRACT
Another large part of the volumes is occupied with an account and analysis of Donne’s poems and other writings, and the student or lover of the poet is likely to turn to this portion of Mr Gosse’s work with especial interest, because much of Donne’s poetry, while it serves to illustrate his strange career and stranger character, presents such difficulties as to require intelligent and appreciative exposition in order that its true merits may be understood-merits which led Ben Jonson, one of the most capable of critics, ‘to esteem John Donne the first poet in the world in some things’.
