The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne

Volume I: Sermons Preached at the Jacobean Courts, 1615-19

Edited by Peter McCullough

Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne

The latest volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
Contains the ten sermons preached by Donne at the court of James VI & I, between Donne's ordination in 1615 and his departure to Germany in 1619
The first annotated edition and only in-print edition of these sermons
Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts arranged by the location of the sermons
Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne

Volume I: Sermons Preached at the Jacobean Courts, 1615-19

Edited by Peter McCullough

Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne

Description

The latest volume to be published in The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, which presents the largest prose output of one of the most celebrated poets and preachers of the seventeenth century. The edition provides freshly edited texts arranged by place of delivery instead of (often speculative) chronology, and offers a wealth of explanatory material for specialist and non-specialist readers alike. This volume contains the eleven sermons preached by Donne at the court of James VI & I, between Donne's ordination in 1615 and his departure with Viscount Doncaster on a diplomatic embassy to Germany. It includes the first surviving sermon by Donne, here reattributed to the court at Greenwich; the only extant sermon preached for Queen Anne of Denmark; and one of Donne's most admired orations on death and resurrection. In each case an authoritative text has been established by freshly collating multiple copies of the seventeenth-century print editions and contemporary manuscripts. The Introduction describes the institutional and physical context of Donne's early Jacobean court sermons and analyses his style of preaching and doctrinal positions. For the first time, the sermons appear with a full critical apparatus: headnotes to each sermon describe its textual state and supply local historical context and suggestions for further reading, while extensive commentaries trace Donne's use of his sources, translate passages in foreign languages, and gloss important and unfamiliar words.

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne

Volume I: Sermons Preached at the Jacobean Courts, 1615-19

Edited by Peter McCullough

Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne

INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
I. Royal Chaplaincy
II. Lent Court Preaching
III. The Settings
i:The Jacobean Courts, 1615-19
ii:The Chapel Royal
iii:The Chapels
iv:Denmark House
v:The Whitehall Preaching Place
IV. The Sermons: Context, Form, Doctrine
V. Commentary
i:Bibles
ii: Church Fathers
iii:Contemporary Commentaries and Controversial Works
iv:Secular Learning
VI. The Texts
VII. Calendar of Donne's Sermons, 1615-19
VIII. This Edition: Principles and Conventions
THE SERMONS
1:A SERMON PREACHED AT GREENWICH APRIL 30. 1615. [ISA. 52: 3]
2:A SERMON Preached at WHITE-HALL, April 21. 1616. [Eccles. 8: 11]
3:A SERMON Preached at WHITE-HALL, Novemb. 2. 1617. [Ps. 55: 19]
4:A SERMON Preached to Queen Anne, at Denmarke-house. December. 14. 1617. [Prov. 8: 17]
5:A Lent-SERMON Preached at WHITE-HALL, February 20. 1617. [Luke 23: 40]
6:A SERMON Preached AT WHITE-HALL Aprill 12. 1618. [Gen. 32: 10]
7:A Sermon Preached at White-hall. April 19. 1618. [1 Tim. 1: 15]
8:8. A Second Sermon Preached at White-hall. April 21. 1618. [1 Tim. 1: 15]
9:A Lent-SERMON Preached at WHITE-HALL, February 12. 1618. [Ezek. 33: 32]
10:Preached to the Lords upon Easter-day, at the Communion, The King being then dangerously sick at New-Market. [Ps. 89: 48]
ABBREVIATIONS
THE COMMENTARIES
Index of Biblical Texts
Biographical Index
Index of John Donne's Works
General Index

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne

Volume I: Sermons Preached at the Jacobean Courts, 1615-19

Edited by Peter McCullough

Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne

Author Information

Edited by Peter McCullough, Professor of English and Tutorial Fellow, University of Oxford

Peter McCullough is Fellow and Tutor in English at Lincoln College Oxford, and Professor in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford. With degrees from UCLA and Princeton, he is the author of Sermons at Court: Religion and Politics in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching (Cambridge, 1998), editor of Lancelot Andrewes: Selected Sermons and Lectures (Oxford, 2005), and, with Emma Rhatigan and Hugh Adlington, The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon (Oxford, 2010).

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne

Volume I: Sermons Preached at the Jacobean Courts, 1615-19

Edited by Peter McCullough

Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne

Reviews and Awards

"For advanced students and scholars of Donne, it is a wonderful resource, McCullough and his colleagues are to be thanked." - Jane Rickard, The Seventeenth Century