WITH ELEGIES ON THE AUTHOR'S DEATH. This century, however, has been remarkable for the broadening and deepening of interest in his work.A poet of love and friendship, Donne also employed dialectic, monologue and psychological analysis to wrestle with his religious, philosophic and personal doubts and with 'the wearisome condition of humanity' in a world that appeared as puzzling and riven as ours does today.From his early Songs and Sonets, Elegies, Ephithalamions and Satyres to Verse Letters, Anniversaries, Epicedes, Obsequies and Divine Poems, Donne's extraordinary, rich, complex and demanding poetry expresses, as John Hayward comments in his introduction, 'for us our hopes and fears of an analogoous human condition'.

    . . and promises that she shall follow him to the New World. Here is New Hampshire in America . . . where men loyal to the king and his church build a happy land that honors both the spirit and the flesh, till the godly men of Massachusetts come with laws to still their neighbors' laughter . . . where a strange little girl named Nan boasts that her mother was the first harlot in Portsmouth . . . and where Joan bears John a son and calls him Will. Here is London, when young Will returns to his father's England in the year of the plague . . . where a girl in a scarlet dress plays her lute and sings to keep her city gay, while the street-voices cry "Bring out your dead."