[Next Project] Poetry by John Donne

[Emma Sweeney]

For my next project, I would like to work on a John Donne poetry collection. A spread sheet has already been started, but I'm not quite sure on the order of the poems. 85% of the poems were published in 1633, after the author's death. The rest were squeezed into numbered sections (see holy sonnets and elegies), so reordering the poems by publication date would break up the ordered poems. The section order varies between various editions.

I would like to use E. K. Chambers' edition, since he uses modern spelling. Should I just go with how he orders the sections?

spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WHmJTK3oKKAqIoW5PfTt0ha3OE6e_h1CuhfrY61jbgo/edit?usp=sharing
page scans: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001358019

For the cover, there are religious painting in the art DB that work well:

1. Christ in the Realm of the Dead by Joakim Skovgaard



2. Christ in the Wilderness by Ivan Kramskoy




Emma

[Alex Cabal]

OK, sure. Ordering them according to the Chambers edition is fine.
Please send a link to your repo once you start.

On 11/18/25 11:40 AM, Emma Sweeney wrote:
> For my next project, I would like to work on a John Donne poetry
> collection. A spread sheet has already been started, but I'm not quite
> sure on the order of the poems. 85% of the poems were published in 1633,
> after the author's death. The rest were squeezed into numbered sections
> (see holy sonnets and elegies), so reordering the poems by publication
> date would break up the ordered poems. The section order varies between
> various editions.
>
> I would like to use E. K. Chambers' edition, since he uses modern
> spelling. Should I just go with how he orders the sections?
>
> spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/
> d/1WHmJTK3oKKAqIoW5PfTt0ha3OE6e_h1CuhfrY61jbgo/edit?usp=sharing

> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/
> d/1WHmJTK3oKKAqIoW5PfTt0ha3OE6e_h1CuhfrY61jbgo/edit?usp=sharing>
> page scans: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001358019 <https://
> catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001358019>

>
> For the cover, there are religious painting in the art DB that work well:
>

> 1. Christ in the Realm of the Dead by Joakim Skovgaard <https://
> standardebooks.org/artworks/joakim-skovgaard/christ-in-the-realm-of-the-
> dead>
>
> poetry-cover-1.jpg
>
> 2. Christ in the Wilderness by Ivan Kramskoy <https://
> standardebooks.org/artworks/ivan-kramskoy/christ-in-the-wilderness>
>
> poetry-cover-2.jpg
>
>
> Emma
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[Emma Sweeney]

Repository: https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/john-donne_poetry

Emma

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Weijia will manage with Robin reviewing.

On 11/18/25 3:39 PM, Emma Sweeney wrote:
> Repository: https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/john-donne_poetry <https://
> github.com/EmmaSweeney/john-donne_poetry>

>
> Emma
> On Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 3:49:14 PM UTC-5 Alex Cabal wrote:
>
> OK, sure. Ordering them according to the Chambers edition is fine.
> Please send a link to your repo once you start.
>
> On 11/18/25 11:40 AM, Emma Sweeney wrote:
> > For my next project, I would like to work on a John Donne poetry
> > collection. A spread sheet has already been started, but I'm not
> quite
> > sure on the order of the poems. 85% of the poems were published
> in 1633,
> > after the author's death. The rest were squeezed into numbered
> sections
> > (see holy sonnets and elegies), so reordering the poems by
> publication
> > date would break up the ordered poems. The section order varies
> between
> > various editions.
> >
> > I would like to use E. K. Chambers' edition, since he uses modern
> > spelling. Should I just go with how he orders the sections?
> >

> > spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/ <https://
> docs.google.com/spreadsheets/>
> > d/1WHmJTK3oKKAqIoW5PfTt0ha3OE6e_h1CuhfrY61jbgo/edit?usp=sharing
> > <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/ <https://docs.google.com/
> spreadsheets/>

> > d/1WHmJTK3oKKAqIoW5PfTt0ha3OE6e_h1CuhfrY61jbgo/edit?usp=sharing>
> > page scans: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001358019

> <https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001358019> <https://
> > catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001358019 <http://

> catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001358019>>
> >
> > For the cover, there are religious painting in the art DB that
> work well:
> >
> > 1. Christ in the Realm of the Dead by Joakim Skovgaard <https://
> > standardebooks.org/artworks/joakim-skovgaard/christ-in-the-realm-

> of-the- <http://standardebooks.org/artworks/joakim-skovgaard/christ-

> in-the-realm-of-the->
> > dead>
> >
> > poetry-cover-1.jpg
> >
> > 2. Christ in the Wilderness by Ivan Kramskoy <https://
> > standardebooks.org/artworks/ivan-kramskoy/christ-in-the-

> wilderness <http://standardebooks.org/artworks/ivan-kramskoy/christ-

> in-the-wilderness>>
> >
> > poetry-cover-2.jpg
> >
> >
> > Emma
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[Weijia Cheng]

Ok, noted.