OK great, thanks!
On 3/18/26 2:42 PM, Emma Sweeney wrote:
> I went back to look at some newer editions to see if there were any more
> poems that needed to be added. After looking at all these different
> editions of John Donne's poetry, I have found that no one can agree
> exactly which poems are written by John Donne! The Norton Critical
> Edition doesn't include many of the elegies, satires, or verse letters;
> The Variorum Edition compares different manuscripts and their many
> different spellings, word choices, and orders. Other editions either
> include all of the poems regardless of their questionable origins, or
> they copy Herbert Grierson's edition verbatim. This problem stems from
> the fact that Donne's poems were published posthumously.
>
> What editors can agree on is that Herbert Grierson was the best scholar
> on John Donne's works. I propose that we order the poems like in Herbert
> Grierson's The Poems of John Donne <
https://www.gutenberg.org/
> ebooks/48688>. I can't use the actual text from Grierson's book, because
> it uses Early Modern English. I will continue to use the text from E. K.
> Chamber's edition since it uses Modern English (and is the only
> collection in the public domain that modernizes the language), which I'm
> still cleaning up. There are only a couple or poems that are present in
> Grierson's edition but absent from Chamber's edition; I'll see if I can
> find some other editions that have Modern English versions of these poems.
>
> I have marked the poems that Grierson found to have uncertain authorship
> in the spreadsheet.
>
>
> Emma
> On Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 7:02:37 PM UTC-5 Emma Sweeney wrote:
>
> Yep, /Christ in the Realm of the Dead/ by Joakim Skovgaard <https://
>
standardebooks.org/artworks/joakim-skovgaard/christ-in-the-realm-of-
> the-dead>.
>
> Emma
> On Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 6:56:25 PM UTC-5
weij...@bu.edu wrote:
>
> Sounds good. Did you ever decide on a painting?
>
> On Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 6:23:47 PM UTC-5 Emma Sweeney
> wrote:
>
> I'm still working on this! I've been double checking the
> authorship for some of the poems. I've noted in the
> spreadsheet which ones were attributed to Donne at some
> point but were later discovered to be written by others.
>
> The raw OCR needs a lot of work. The transcription won't be
> completed for several more months...
>
>
> Emma
> On Monday, December 29, 2025 at 4:02:21 PM UTC-5 Alex Cabal
> wrote:
>
> OK!
>
> On 12/29/25 3:01 PM, Emma Sweeney wrote:
> > Just a quick update: I'm 90% through creating a rough
> transcription.
> > After rereading the poems, I think Christ in the
> Realm of the Dead by
> > Joakim Skovgaard <
https://standardebooks.org/
> artworks/joakim-skovgaard/ <
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> artworks/joakim-skovgaard/>
>
github.com/EmmaSweeney/john-donne_poetry> <http://
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github.com/ <
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> > > > spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/
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docs.google.com/spreadsheets/> <
http://docs.google.com/
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>
docs.google.com/ <
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> > > > page scans:
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/
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> > > >
> > > > poetry-cover-2.jpg
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Emma
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