Contains writings about John Donne from 1873 to 1923, including Henry Morley, Edmund Gosse, W.F. Collier, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Augustin Beers, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and many others. Together these works present a record of how, from the nineteenth century onwards, critics viewed Donne, and how he became part of today's literary canon.

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Introduction Note on the text 1. Henry Morley 1873 2. Rosaline Orme Masson 1876 3. William Minto 1880 4. John Henry Shorthouse 1881 5. Alice King 1881 6. David Masson 1881 7. John Churton Collins 1881 8. A.H. Welsh 1882 9. Edmund Gosse 1883 10. T.J. Backus 1884 11. George Edward Bateman Saintsbury 1887 12. Jacob Von Schipper 1888 13. Margaret Woods 1889 14. Edward Dowden 1890 15. W.F. Collier 1891 16. Edmund Gosse 1891 17. Gamaliel Bradford 1892 18. Rudyard Kipling 1893 19. Edmund Gosse 1893 20. Edmund Gosse 1894 21. Edward Kerchever Chambers 1895 22. Charles Eliot Norton 1895 23. Felix E. Schelling 1895 24. Clyde Bowman Furst 1896/1899 25. George Edward Bateman Saintsbury 1896 26. Oswald Crawfurd 1896 27. Anon. The Dial 1896 28. Lional Johnson 1896 29. Thomas Bird Mosher 1897 30. Frederick Ives Carpenter 1897 31. Augustine Jessop 1897 32. Anon. The Academy 1897 33. Anon. The Quarterly Review 1897 34. Francis Thompson 1897/1899 35. Henry Augustin Beers 1898 36. David Hannay 1898 37. George Edward Bateman Saintsbury 1898 38. Felix E. Schelling 1898 39. Edmund Gosse 1899 40. Anon. The Athenaeum 1899 41. Richard Garnett 1899 42. Leslie Stephen 1899 43. Arthur Symons 1899 44. Francis Thompson 1899 45. Henry Augustin Beers 1899 46. Anon. The Academy 1900 47. Reuben Post Halleck 1900 48. Anon. The Nation 1900 49. Anon. The Church Quarterly Review 1900 50. H.M. Saunders 1900 51. J.W. Chadwick 1900 52. Anon. The Quarterly Review 1900 53. Charles Griffin Child 1900, 54. Thomas Hardy 1900, 55. Anon. Chamber's Encyclopaedia of English Literature 1901 56. Anon. The Quarterly Review 1902 57. Henry Charles Beeching 1902 58. William Vaugh Moody and Robert Morss Lovett 1902 59. Rudolf Richter 1902 60. Thomas Seccombe and John W. Allen 1903 61. A.H. Garstang 1903 62. Richard Garnett and Edmund Gosse 1903 63. William John Courthope 1903 64. John Smith Harrison 1903 65. August Wilhelm Trost 1904 66. Barrett Wendell 1904 67. Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1904 68. Frank Lusk Babbott 1905 69. Charles Eliot Norton 1905 70. Anon. The Dial 1905 71. Geoffrey Langdon Keynes 1906 72. Henry Marvin Belden 1906 73. Martin Grove Brumbaugh 1906 74. Charles Crawford 1906 75. Wightman Fletcher Melton 1906 76. Herbert John Clifford Grierson 1906 77. Carolyn Spurgeon 1907/1913 78. George Edward Bateman Saintsbury 1908 79. Alfred Horatio Upham 1908 80. George Charles Moore Smith 1908 81. Thomas Hardy 1908 82. Herbert John Clifford Grierson 1909 83. Janet Spens 1909 84. Phoebe Anne Beale Sheavyn 1909 85. William Macdonald Sinclair 1909 86. Felix E. Schelling 1910 87. Edward Thomas 1910/1911 88. Edward Thomas 1912 89. Herbert John Clifford Grierson 1912 90. William Butler Yeats 1912 91. Edward Bliss Reed 1912 92. Andrew Lang 1912 93. Evelyn Mary Simpson (N^e'e Spearing) 1912 94. Anon. The Nation 1913 95. Felix E. Schelling 1910 96. G.C. Moore Smith 1913 97. Rupert Brooke 98. George Stuart Gordon 1913 99. Walter De La Mare 1913 100. Anon. The Spectator 1913 101. Ernest Percival Rhys 1913 102. Horace Ainsworth Eaton 1914 103. Sir Sidney Colvin 1914 104. Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers 1914 105. Robert Bridges 1914 106. Geoffrey Langdon Keynes 1914 107. David Macleane 1915 108. Ezra Pound 1916 109. Philipp Aronstein 1916 110. Arthur Symons 1916 111. Sir William Watson 1917 112. Mary Paton Ramsay 1917 113. George Jackson 1917 114. Fran^c,ois Joseph Picavet 1917 115. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch 1918 116. Philipp Aronstein 1919 117. Aldous Huxley 1919 120. Logan Pearsall Smith 1919 121. Robert Bridges 1919 122. John Livingston Lowes 1919 123. Thomas Stearns Eliot 1919 124. Raymond Macdonald Alden 1920 125. John Cann Bailey 1920 126. Robert Wilson Lynd 1920 127. Philipp Aronstein 1920 128. Louise Imogen Guiney 1920 129. Thomas Stearns Eliot 1919/1920 130. Herbert John Clifford Grierson 1921 131. Thomas Stearns Eliot 1921 132. George Edward Bateman Saintsbury/Thomas Stear