Male : Metaphysical poet and preacher. In 1601 entered parliament as MP for Brackley and married Ann More the same year

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Bread Street, London

Date of Birth : 1572 Date of Death : 1631 Age : 59

Other Work : Dean of St Paul's 1621-31

Education : Hart Hall, Oxford & Cambridge University

17thC
Progress of the Soul (1601)
Pseudo-Martyr (1610)
The Anatomy of the World (1611)
Ignatius His Conclave (1611)
The Second Anniversary : Of the Progress of the Soul (1612)
Epithalamium (1613)
Three Sermons (1623)
Devitions upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Four Sermons (1625)
Five Sermons (1626)
Divine Poems
Poems first published in 1633 (John Marriott) & 1649
Juvenilia, or Certain Paradoxes and Problems (1633)
Six Sermons (1634)
Two Sermons (1634)
Poems, with Elegies on the Authors Death (1639 MF for John Marriot, London. 3rd Collected Ed)
Offered in 1992 for £380
LXXX Sermons (1640)
Biathanatos (1647 John Dawson, London)
Catalogues Librorum Aulicorum, in Poems (1650)
Essays in Divinity, Interwoven with Meditations and Prayers (1651)
Letters to Several Persons of Honour (1651)
(1654 J Flesher, sold by John Sweeting. 2nd Issue)
Offered in 1992 for £280
Paradoxes, problems, Characters, with Ignatius His Conclave (1652)
Poems .. with Elegies on the Author's Death (1669 Henry Herringman. 5th Ed)

18thC
Poems on Several Occasions (1719 Tonson, Taylor. 6th Ed)
The Poetical Works (1779 Apollo Press, Edinburgh) - 3 vols in 1
The Poetical Works .. With the Life of the Author (1799-1800 Cawthorn) - 3 vols in 2

19thC
The Works .. with a Memoir by Henry Alford (1839 Parker) - 6 vols
Devotions with Two Sermons (1840 Wm Pickering)
The Complete Poems : The Grosart Edition (1872-3 PP London for circulation) - 206. 2 vols
The Poems (1896 Lawrence & Bullen) - Edited by E K Chambers. 2 vols

1900-1925
The Poems (1912 Clarendon Press) - Edited by Sir Herbert Grierson. 2 vols
(1929 OUP) - one vol Ed
(1938 Clarendon) - 2 vols.
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1923 CUP)
Love Poems : With some Account of His Life taken from the Writings in 1639 of Izaak Walton
(1923 Nonesuch Press) - 1250 numbered
Ten Sermons preached by John Donne (1923 Nonesuch Press) - 725
Paradoxes and Problems (1923 Nonesuch Press, Soho) - 645
A Defence of Women for their Inconstancy (1925 Fanfrolico Press) - 370. Norman Lindsay

After 1926
The Noel Douglas Replicas : John Donne the First & Second Anniversaries
(1926 Noel Douglas, London)
An Anatomie of the World (1929 High House Press, Shaftesbury) - 170
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose : Edited by John Hayward
(1929 Nonesuch Press) - 675
The Courtier's Library, or Catalogus Librorum Aulicorum (1930 Nonesuch Press) - 950
Sermon of Valediction at His Going into Germany Preached at Lincoln's Inn 1619
(1932 Nonesuch) - 750
The Holy Sonnets (1938 Dent for Hague & Gill, London) - 550 signed by Eric Gill
The Poems of John Donne (1951 OUP) - 2 vols
The Sermons (1962 California UP) - 10 vols
Essays in Divinity (1967 Oxford) - edited by Evelyn M Simpson
The Poems (1968 Ltd Eds Club, Cambridge) - 1500 signed by Imre Reiner
Death's Duell : A Sermon (1973 Bodley Head) - Edited by Geoffrey Keynes
The Flea (1977 Circle Press, Guildford) - 75 signed by Willow Legge

READING
Life of Dr Donne by Izaak Walton (1640)
Sir Geoffrey Keynes : A Bibliography of the Works of Dr John Donne
(1914 Baskerville Club, Cambridge) - 300
Evelyn M Simpson : A Study of the Prose Works of John Donne (1948 Oxford. 2nd Ed)
W Milgate : John Donne - The Satires, Epigrams & Verse Letters (1967 Clarendon Press)
R C Bald : John Donne - A Life (1970 Clarendon Press)
Sir Geoffrey Keynes : A Bibliography of Dr John Donne, Dean of St Paul's (1973 Oxford. 4th Ed)
John R Roberts : John Donne - An Annotated Bibliography of Modern criticism 1912-1967 (1973)
John Carey : John Donne - Life, Mind and Art (1987 Faber £9.50)