Here’s Zac Smith reading Donne’s “Elegy 3: Change.” Donne’s elegies (in the Renaissance, “elegy” could mean any discursive or meditative poem, and could include even bawdy, Romanesque poems, as Donne demonstrates) are particularly interesting as indications of his wit and his skill at arguing several sides of the same issue, sometimes all at once. “Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going To Bed” is Donne’s most famous in this genre, and it’s a great poem, but I was very happy to see students go for some of the less well-known elegies in Donne’s work.

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