Johnson and Variorum Staff Complete Last Volumes

Dr. Jeffrey Johnson and the staff of the John Donne Variorum just submitted the last two volumes of the 10 printed volumes to Indiana University Press. Those volumes are the last two parts of the 3-part Songs & Sonets set: Songs & Sonets, Volume 4.2 (1,104 total pages) and Songs & Sonets, Volume 4.3 (1,050 total pages). These two volumes contain the texts and commentary for all 57 of these love lyrics.

The Divine Poems, Volume 7.2 (1,012 total pages) is currently at the press and will be available January 2021. The last two Songs & Sonets volumes should then be published about a year later. This project was first conceived by a group of eight scholars in 1980 and over the years dozens of scholars and research assistants contributed to the excellence of this critical edition of Donne’s poetry. And now, 40 years and many NEH dollars later, it is done.

Go English!