ABSTRACT

In 1896 the admirable edition of Mr Chambers in the Muses’ Library for the first time brought Donne within the reach of the average reader, and for the last fifteen years there has probably been more genuine interest taken in his poetry by lovers of English literature than during the whole preceding period since the days of Dryden. The full and scholarly edition which Professor Grierson has just published is at once a proof of this growing interest in Donne’s work and an assurance of its increase in the future….