<p>From reviews of previous volumes:<br><br>"This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship." —<i>Chronique</i><br><br>"Academic libraries and specialists in Renaissance and 17th-century studies should feel compelled to own each and every volume of this series." —<i>Seventeenth Century News</i><br><br>"An occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century. Superb." —<i>Early Modern Literary</i><br>Studies<br><br>This latest addition to the Donne variorum, the third to appear in a projected eight-volume series, presents a newly edited critical text of Donne's elegies and a comprehensive variorum commentary. As with previous volumes, Volume 2 is based on a study of all known manuscript sources and significant printed editions of Donne's poetry and on an examination of the criticism and scholarship of the past four centuries.</p>