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1 juin 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufr.4557
- eisbn: 9782869064683
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Richard Todd, « In what Sense is John Donne the Author of the ‘Songs and Sonnets’? », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.4557
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A. J. Smith’s 1971 edition of John Donne’s complete English poems in the Penguin English Poets series begins with fifty-five love lyrics arranged under the heading ‘Songs and Sonnets’. Right from the beginning of his edition Smith admits that ‘[n] o editor can be confident that he is printing just what Donne wrote’. Smith further admits that the order of the poems he prints ‘is not that in which Donne composed them’ (13-14). In his edition, Smith also ‘arrange [s] the poems alphabetically by ...