Donne John. Selected Prose

Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Neil Rhodes. — Penguin Classics, 2015. — 893 p.John Donne was born into a Catholic family in 1572. After a conventional education at Hart Hall, Oxford, and Lincoln’s Inn, he took part in the Earl of Essex’s expedition to the Azores in 1597. He secretly married Anne More in December 1601, and was imprisoned by her father, Sir George, in the Fleet two months later. He was ordained priest in January 1615, and proceeded to a Doctorate of Divinity at Cambridge in April of that year. In 1621 he was made Dean of St Paul’s in London, a post that he held until his death in 1631. He is famous for the sermons he preached in his later years as well as for his poems.
Neil Rhodes is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews and Visiting Professor at the University of Granada. His publications include English Renaissance Translation Theory (2013), Shakespeare and the Origins of English (2004) and (with Jonathan Sawday) The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print (2000). He is also co-General Editor (with Andrew Hadfield) of the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations.