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- Creator:
- Donne, John, 1572-1631
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1620].
- Call Number:
- Osborn b114
- Image Count:
- 322
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Foliation errors throughout. and Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of 33 of Donne's poems and several of his other writings. The poems include Catholicism-inflected poems "A Lettanie" and "A Sonnett On the blessed Virgin Marie," as well as "Satira Prima" through "Satira Sexta," selections from his elegies, "The Flea," "Diamond in Glass" ["A Valediction of My Name, in the Window"], and sets of "Canzons," "Canzonettes," and "Airs and Angles." Other writings include several satirical prose "Problemes" such as "Why doe women delight so much in feathers" and "Why doth not gold soyle the fingers" and a copy of a letter by Donne to the Countess of Bedford accompanied by the poem "Obsequies on the Lord Harrington brother to the Countess of Bedford."
- Description:
- Binding: parchment. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--England
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry., English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, Metaphysics--Poetry, Religious poetry, and Verse satire, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Poems, with a few prose problemes]
