The Poems of John Donne, Volume 2 (of 2)

INTRODUCTION

I

THE POETRY OF DONNE

Donne's position among English poets, regarded from the historical and what we like to call scientific point of view, has been defined with learning and discrimination by Mr. Courthope in his _History of English Poetry_. As a phenomenon of curious interest for the student of the history of thought and literary fashions, there it is...