Abstract

AbstractThis paper is part of the secondLiterature Compasspanel cluster arising fromThe Texas A&M John Donne Collection: A Symposium and Exhibition. [Correction added after online publication 24 October 2008: ‘This paper introduces the secondLiterature Compasspanel cluster’ changed to ‘This paper is part of the secondLiterature Compasspanel cluster’.] Comprising an introduction by Gary Stringer and three of the papers presented at the symposium, this cluster seeks to examine the current state of Donne Studies and aims to provide a snapshot of the field. The symposium was held April 6–7, 2006.The cluster is made up of the following articles:‘Introduction to the Second Donne Cluster: Three Papers fromThe Texas A&M John Donne Collection: A Symposium and Exhibition’, Gary A. Stringer,Literature Compass5 (2008), DOI:10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00551.x.‘Donne into Print: The Seventeenth‐Century Collected Editions of Donne's Poetry’, Ted‐Larry Pebworth,Literature Compass5 (2008), DOI:10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00552.x.‘ “a mixed Parenthesis”: John Donne'sLetters to Severall Persons of Honour’, M. Thomas Hester,Literature Compass5 (2008), DOI:10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00553.x.‘What We Think About Donne: A History of Donne Criticism in Twenty Minutes’, Paul A. Parrish,Literature Compass5 (2008), DOI:10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00554.x.***The early printing history of John Donne's collected poetry was largely shaped by his attitude toward printing. Throughout his life, Donne preferred manuscript circulation to print publication, and that preference had significant consequences for the early dissemination of his poems, their posthumous publication in 1633, and their subsequent textual histories. The modern editor must consider carefully all early artefacts of Donne's poetry – both manuscript and print – in the pursuit of the authorial text. Fortunately, the acquisition of the I. A. Shapiro collection of seventeenth‐century editions of Donne by the Cushing Memorial Library at Texas A&M University has facilitated the study of those early printings.

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