Ben Jonson considered John Donne the first among the poets of his time. That estimate of his seventeenth-century contemporary has been reaffirmed by critics and discerning readers today.  The man whose life ranged almost incredibly from a dissolute youth to the deanship of St. Paul's Cathedral left for posterity love poems, satires and sermons which still reflect Donne's vigor, intensity and the extraordinarily wide range of his interests. This new edition, with an Introduction by Charles M. Coffin of Kenyon College, contains all of Donne's poetry and a generous selection of his prose.