The poems of John Donne (2 vols., Oxford, 1912) interleaved and annotated, with letters to Sir Herbert.
Papers of Sir Herbert Grierson relating to John Donne
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- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Eng. poet. e. 92-3; Eng lett. d. 363
- Dates of Creation1906-50
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
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Administrative / Biographical History
Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960) was a scholar of English literature; he became the first professor of English at Aberdeen in 1894, and was later Professor of English literature at Edinburgh University from 1915 until his retirement in 1935. Further details are provided in the Dictionary of National Biography.
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Acquisition Information
Given to the Library by Sir Herbert in 1953.
Note
Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, nos. 46483-5.
Bibliography
See the chapter on Donne (written by Grierson) in the Cambridge History of English Literature ; his two volume edition The poems of John Donne for the Clarendon Press, published in 1912; his anthology of Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century, (Clarendon Press, 1921); and The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse which he co-edited with G. Bullough (Clarendon Press, 1934).