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Key Features:
- Study methods
- Introduction to the text
- Summaries with critical notes
- Themes and techniques
- Textual analysis of key passages
- Author biography
- Historical and literary background
- Modern and historical critical approaches
- Chronology
- Glossary of literary terms
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
I'm currently revising for my English A2 and bought this book to help me. I really like revision guides and wouldnt have got a good AS grade without the help of my Tess guide. However, this one is pretty rubbish. It doesn't have the poems in, so you don't know where the quotes are that are analysed. It tends to just give a glossary of Old English words rather than actually analysing anything. Some of the poems aren't even explained - I have real trouble with "Nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day" and the guide doesn't help at all so was forced to google the meaning. Also slightly concerning is the sentence structure, grammar and phrasing; a lot of it doesn't make sense and it seems like the editor tried to make it sound more pretentious but failed. Also some of the points it makes are a bit dubious (ie for Mistress Going to Bed, a poem about how Donne tries to convince a woman to sleep with him, the context suggests that she is 'just as sexually enthusiastic as him' even though the whole poem is about him desperately trying to convince her to give in). I feel that it was a waste of money and by googling the poems individually I'd have got a lot more info.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
I had problems understanding John Donne's poetry, but York notes explains what they are all about, definately helped me get my A. As it includes themes, analysis, critical approaches and the author biography, I found it a very useful guide.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
It's regrettable that the author of these notes appears not to be very fond of John Donne's work. Some of the notes are useful, but the "well, that wasn't very successful, was it?" tone becomes excessively irritating. Especially if one isn't "doing" Donne for A-level, but is instead just wanting to deepen one's knowledge and understanding of much-loved poems.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Poorly structured, shallow guide
Yorke Notes have been extremely helpful in the past, but this edition of selected poems by John Donne is very disappointing. Read more
Published on 3 April 2006 by M. Wenzl
It's already been donne (please excuse the pun)
In my opinion, this book contains nothing that, as A-level English student, you won't already know. It merely regurgitates all the Donne traits such as metaphysical descriptions,... Read more
Published on 14 April 2002
this changed my views on a-level english
each poem is explained in the detail needed for A-level work, essays will now become a million times easier, not only because of the notes on the poems but also because of the... Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2000
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