Guibbory A. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to John Donne

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 312 p. — ISBN10: 0521540038; ISBN13: 978-0521540032.Sixteen new essays, written by an international array of leading scholars and critics, cover Donne's poetry (erotic, satirical, devotional) and his prose (including his Sermons and occasional letters). Providing studies of his text as well as setting them in the historical and cultural context of early modern England, this Companion's up-to-date scholarship introduces students to current issues of debate, and gives them a means to better understand and appreciate John Donne's literary achievements.Donne's life: a sketch.
The text of Donne's writings.
The social context and nature of Donne's writing: occasional verse and letters.
Literary contexts: predecessors and contemporaries.
Donne's religious world.
Donne's political world.
Reading and rereading Donne's poetry.
Satirical writing: Donne in shadows.
Erotic poetry.
Devotional writing.
Donne as preacher.
Donne's language: the conditions of communication.
Gender matters: the women in Donne's poems.
Facing death.
Donne's afterlife.
Feeling thought: Donne and the embodied mind.
Select bibliography.