Richard Burton Reads the Poetry of John Donne (Abridged) Audiobook

" The stars are for Donne, not particularly for this edition. But if you just like reading the poems, the edition does not really matter. "

" Very different to his contemporaries and I found it complex at first reading. "

" I read this most of this; Theology English 12, 2nd semester, 3rd quarter. "

" This is an enjoyable collection of Donne's work, with some very good essays, but I have found that a few of the footnotes are misleading. "

" A marvelous mind for prose and poetry. "

" Despite the outdated style, Donne is a genius. One can feel God's immanence; Donne does not isolate Him in His transcedence. "

" I have several different editions of his poetry and prose. "

" Reignited my love for Donne. "

" Donne's poetry is wonderfully and subtley erotic (this guy had quite an imagination for a priest :)...his love poems are clever and witty (The Flea...The Canonization) and his spiritual poems are passionate and painful (Batter My Heart, Three-Person'd God). "

" ... I think that says enough. "

" This is a nice edition of Donne's works, but even four years after graduating with an English degree, he remains one of the few poets I walked away hating. "

" Read selected poems, and really need to go back and read more. He's fabulous, though I prefer his less religious works. "

" I love John Donne. His love poems are unbelievable. "

" I can't really call this one completely read, considering it's in a constant state of being read by me. Reading Donne completely changed me as a person - "Woman's Constancy" had a particularly strong effect. "

" bought it in a small second hand book shop in canberra, aus. from a thai woman whose face on the left side was covered with liverspots "

" If for no other reason (and there are many), this edition is wonderful for it's correct punctuation at the end of Donne's famous masterpiece Holly sonnet 10 "Death be not proud" "

" Was the highlight of my 18th century lit class in undergrad. Love it! "

" John Donne is one of the great poets of all time, read it. "

" Apart from Donne being one of the most complicated, intelligent, and sophisticated metaphysical poet, I find his violent experience of faith and religious attractive for comparison with his courtship of women in the elegies. "

" He's not my cup of tea, but he is brilliant with clever usage of "conceits" as I said perhaps a little vulgar for my taste. "

" A good read. I think everyone should read these poems. "

" Gorgeous! He has uncanny ability for depth without heaviness. "

" I enjoyed the love sonnets and poetry especially. This edition could have ventured into the poet's life and given some of his pertinent background. "

" Donne is a bad motherfucker, and I think pretty accessible. "

" Donne was the man who made me realize the worth of poetry. In twelfth grade, I read "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and didn't get it at all. But I didn't give up, and once I finally "got" it I realized how powerfully his words had affected me - over centuries. "

" My college favorite! What a guy. I am going to go read a few of these right now. "

" Probably the best collection of Donne's poetry currently in print. "

" Oh, John Donne. Such language. (I mean that both admiringly, "such beautiful language" and scoldingly "Really, John! A dildo! In a poem!") "

" voice of modern man, poems of spiritual intensity "

" Jack the Rake's poems get me hotter than the kitchen oven, but then I turn to the end of the book and I'm broken, blown (?!) burned, and made new again by some serious holiness. "

" His Holy Sonnets are amazing, and classic for anyone whose heard of John Donne, but his other works are greatly over looked. A man who respects religion, but seeks his own path to the truth, as evidenced in his poetry. Beautiful poetry "

" Back in 1998 I was a hopeless romantic. Hence, I read and memorized a lot of Donne's poems. "

" I could read this book over and over again for the rest of my life. "

" His love poems are the best. "