The Donne Variorum
General Editor
Gary A. Stringer
Associate General Editor
Donald Dickson
Chief Editor of the Commentary
Paul A. Parrish
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne (8 vols. Indiana UP, 1995-) is a collaborative work drawing on the labors of over 30 scholars from the United States and abroad. Organized in 1980, the project has enjoyed support from the National Endowment for the Humanities since 1986.
Volumes 6 (The Anniversaries and the Epicedes and Obsequies) and 8 (The Epigrams, Epithalamions, Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Miscellaneous Poems) were published in 1995, Volume 2 (The Elegies) in September of 2000, and Volume 7, part 1 (The Holy Sonnets) became available in November of 2005.
This web site is devoted to keeping interested students, scholars, and members of the public abreast of progress on the edition, as well as to providing information about the project's materials, editorial procedures, and personnel.
DigitalDonne
The DigitalDonne web site is a presentation of high-quality digital images of early editions and manuscripts of John Donne’s poems, accurate transcriptions of the texts of the poems, and tools for the analysis of both artifacts and texts.
Two editions of Poems are online, the White copy of the 1633 edition and a copy of the 1635 edition from the Shapiro library, and we are in the process of adding a copy of the 1669 edition. Also coming soon (spring 2008) is a presentation of the St. Paul's manuscript of Donne's poems.