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Poems. WITH: Juvenilia

1633réf. 1307911633. First Edition. DONNE John. Poems By J.D. With Elegies on the Authors Death. BOUND WITH: Juvenilia or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes. London: Miles Fletcher for John Marriot / Elizabeth Purslowe for Henry Seyle 1633. Small thick quarto contemporary full brown speckled calf rebacked in the 19th century. Housed in a custom calf clamshell box. $52000.First edition of the collected poems of the greatest of the metaphysical poets with the first edition of his perfectly impudent Juvenilia bound together in contemporary calf boards. From the famed Beeleigh Abbey library of W.A. Foyle with his bookplate.Although his poetry was circulated in small bundles of manuscript copies among the cultured circles of Elizabethan and Jacobean society Donne deliberately kept most of it out of print fearing to tarnish his reputation in the religious establishment. Thus almost none of his poetry appeared in print during his lifetime. ""The first editors of Donne's poetry divided his work into about a dozen groupings. The Songs and Sonnets which open the volume are generally amorous in theme; the Divine Poems which close it are described in their title Early scholars took for granted that all the bawdy cynical and lecherous poems were written by young Jack Donne while all the somber penitent devotional poems were written by the godly divine. The more we learn about the matter the less this easy division seems to stand up The poetry of Donne represents a sharp break with that written by his predecessors and most of his contemporaries. Whether he writes of love or devotion Donne's particular blend of wit and seriousness of intense feeling darting thought and vast erudition creates a fascination quite beyond the reach of easier styles and less strenuous minds"" Adams. ""With Donne begins a new era in the history of the English love lyric The spirit of his best love poetry passed into the most interesting of his elegies and his religious verses the influence of which was perhaps even greater than that of his songs"" Rosenbach 30:127. This edition contains ""the first collected edition of Donne's poems derived according to current scholarly thinking from manuscript sources in direct descent from the author's papers. It has been the basis of all scholarly editions since then including the Grolier Club edition of 1895"" Pirie 81 and ""has more authority than any other in print"" Keynes 78. This copy of the Poems contains page 273 Nn1 in the uncorrected state without running title and with 35 lines of text; it is bound without the first and final blanks and the two extra preliminary leaves and without ""The Printer to the Understanders Hexastichon Bibliopolae"" not present in all copies no priority established. Several lines in the Satyres on pages 330-31 and 341 originally containing lines offensive to the king and church are left blank. Donne bibliographer Sir Geoffrey Keynes concludes that various corrections in the text do not differentiate earlier from later states but were random in the preparation of the text. Donne's Poems is bound here with the first edition of his Juvenilia; the Juvenilia consist of ""bits of logical horseplay loaded with legal aphorisms perversely applied and perfectly impudent in their cheerful brassy assurance""' Adams. ""Owing to their rather free nature they could not be published during Donne's lifetime"" Keynes 93. Woodcut printer's device on title woodcut and typographic head- and tailpieces and woodcut initials throughout. Keynes 78 43. Grolier 100 25. STC 7045 7043. Pforzheimer 296. Hayward 54. Front pastedown with small leather Beeleigh Abbey label of famed bookseller and collector William A. Foyle affixed over earlier bookplate. ""In 1945 Foyle bought the twelfth-century Premonstratensian Abbey of Beeleigh situated on the River Chelmer in Maldon Essex. In this beautiful setting he was able to indulge his passion for collecting rare books and he formed one of the great libraries"" DNB. Title page with inked owner inscription front pastedown with inked annotations three poems with small inked corrections in an early hand.Light embrowning overall; title page with small repair to outer margin a few leaves with faint waterstaining to lower portions. A desirable copy in contemporary calf of this literary landmark. hardcover

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DEVOTIONS With Two Sermons I. On the Decease of Lady Danvers Mother of George Herbert II. Deaths Duel - His Own Funeral Sermon to Which is Prefixed His Life by Izaak Walton

1840réf. 35099London: William Pickering 1840. First Pickering Edition. With an allegorical engraved frontispiece. 8vo handsomely bound in three-quarter red morocco over marbled paper covered boards the joins gilt ruled the spine panel with raised bands gilt stopped the compartments richly gilt in fully tooled panels between the bands top edge gilt marbled endleaves. cviii 227 pp. A handsome and pleasing copy the text-block clean the binding well preserved the gilt bright the hinges strong minimal age evidence. FIRST OF THE EDITION. There is an extensive biography of Donne written by Izaak Walton and a series of letters and announcements to Walton from a number of illuminaries. Concerning his poetry it has been said that Donne was the first English poet to break out of the old Petrarchian style bringing a new tone and temper imagery and rhythm to English verse. His influence if sometimes unfortunate in poets without his strength and originality was important in creating a poetry that was more sincere more condensed and pregnant in feeling than its Elizabethan precedents. His "greatest poetical collection of the century" laid the stylistic groundwork for the greatest poem of the century Milton's "Paradise Lost." STC 7045 and 7043; Keynes 78 and 43 Donne 1571 or 1572 - 1631 English poet scholar soldier and secretary born into a recusant family later became a cleric in the Church of England.2 Under royal patronage he was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London 1621–1631. He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His poetical works are noted for their metaphorical and sensual style and include sonnets love poems religious poems Latin translations epigrams elegies songs and satires. He is also known for his sermons. 'Having converted to the Anglican Church Donne quickly became noted for his sermons and religious poems. Towards the end of his life Donne wrote works that challenged death and the fear that it inspired in many on the grounds of his belief that those who die are sent to Heaven to live eternally. One example of this challenge is his Holy Sonnet X "Death Be Not Proud". Even as he lay dying during Lent in 1631 he rose from his sickbed and delivered the Death's Duel sermon which was later described as his own funeral sermon. Death's Duel portrays death as merely another process of life in which the 'winding sheet' of the womb is the same as that of the grave. Hope is seen in salvation and immortality through an embrace of God Christ and the Resurrection.' Durant and Durant 1961The Age of Reason Begins Izaak Walton's biography of Donne included here is a superb work on one of England's greatest poets and thinkers. William Pickering hardcover

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