This volume, the ninth in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, presents newly edited critical texts of 25 love lyrics. Based on an ex

The Hexastichon was a memory system created by Sebastian Brand in 1503, involving sixteen figures which is supposed to help the reader to remember the events in

When poetry was printed, poets and their publishers could no longer take for granted that readers would have the necessary knowledge and skill to read it well.