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This is the 4th volume of "The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne" to appear. This volume presents a newly edited critical text of the Holy Sonnets and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time through 1995. The editors identify and print both an earlier and a revised authorial sequence of sonnets, as well as presenting the scribal collection - which contains unique authorial versions of several of the sonnets - inscribed by Donne's friend Rowland Woodward in the Westmoreland manuscript.Gary A. Stringer is visiting professor of English at Texas A&M University. Editor of volumes 4-9 of "Explorations in Renaissance Culture and New Essays on Donne", he is a former chair of the Committee on Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association. Paul A. Parrish is Regents Professor and Head of the Department of English at Texas A&M University, author of "Richard Crashaw", and editor of "Celebration: Introduction to Literature".