Customer Reviews
Great introduction to Donne - By: Third Time Lucky, 06 Dec 2008 
This is a great little book. It combines a very comprehensive overview of Donne's poetry with very close commentary of some of the key poems. The author is a schoolmaster, & his teaching experience really shows as he explains technical terms for analysing poetry without ever allowing them to obscure the text he's reviewing.
I did slightly resent the very inflexible reading - Donne is a notoriously slippery poet, & I'd have preferred a few alternative interpretations of his works to have been acknowledged as being at least equally valid.
But generally, this was a real gem, & will be invaluable for students.
John Donne - The Poems by Joe Nutt - By: , 12 Apr 2002 I am studying English at University & currently writing an essay on John Donne's Songs & Sonnets. After reading an abundance of books which have been either too complicated or too simple, Joe Nutt's book is 'just right' - a great find giving me just what I need. Recommended to any stuggling student who needs a mature, indepth analysis of Donne's poetry. Well worth buying.
