From reviews of previous volumes:

This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship. -Chronique

Academic libraries and specialists in Renaissance and 17th-century studies should feel compelled to own each and every volume of this series. -Seventeenth Century News

An occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century. Superb. -Early Modern Literary Studies

This latest addition to the Donne variorum, the third to appear in a projected eight-volume series, presents a newly edited critical text of Donne’s elegies and a comprehensive variorum commentary. As with previous volumes, Volume 2 is based on a study of all known manuscript sources and significant printed editions of Donne’s poetry and on an examination of the criticism and scholarship of the past four centuries.