The appearance of the first volume … is an occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century …
-Claude J. Summers, Early Modern Literary Studies

… especially valuable for its wide-ranging and reliable summaries of textual and critical commentary on these works … This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship. -Biblioteque d'Humanisme et Renaissance

… the most important collaborative project in 17th-century studies in recent history …
-Seventeenth-Century News

A major editorial and interpretive undertaking, this edition includes a newly edited critical text based on exhaustive study of all known manuscripts and significant printed editions of Donne’s poetry and a complete digest of critical and scholarly commentary on the poetry from Donne’s time to the present.