ABSTRACT
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946), man of letters, was born in New Jersey and had degrees from Harvard and Oxford. His publications included Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton and Milton and His Modern Critics. He became an acknowledged authority on Donne, publishing a selection of highlights from Donne’s sermons designed to introduce Donne’s prose to an audience already interested in his poetry. This was the first convenient exhibition of the artistry and power of Donne’s prose, and it made a considerable impact, running to many reprints over the following decades (Donne’s Sermons: Selected Passages. With an Essay, 1919, pp. xiii-lii).
