John Donne
John Donne ( ; 1571 or 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. Under Royal Patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London (1621–1631). He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His poetical works are noted for their metaphorical and sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs and satires. He is also known for his sermons.Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques. His early career was marked by poetry that bore immense knowledge of English society. Another important theme in Donne's poetry is the idea of true religion, something that he spent much time considering and about which he often theorised. He wrote secular poems as well as erotic and love poems. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits.
Despite his great education and poetic talents, Donne lived in poverty for several years, relying heavily on wealthy friends. He spent much of the money he inherited during and after his education on womanising, literature, pastimes and travel. In 1601, Donne secretly married Anne More, with whom he had twelve children. In 1615 he was ordained Anglican deacon and then priest, although he did not want to take holy orders and only did so because the king ordered it. He served as a member of Parliament in 1601 and in 1614. Provided by Wikipedia
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Biathanatos / by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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The variorum edition of the poetry of John Donne / by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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John Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Plot sermon : a parallel-text edition / by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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Donne's Prebend sermons. by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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Juvenilia. by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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The complete English poems [of] John Donne, by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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Poems with elegies on the author's death / by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels, with a selection of prayers and meditations. by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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Complete poetry and selected prose; by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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John Donne / by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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The Oxford edition of the sermons of John Donne. by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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The second anniversarie. Of the progres of the soule. : Wherein: by occasion of the religious death of Mistris Elizabeth Drury, the incommodities of the soule in this life and her... by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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Poems, / by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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A sermon vpon the XX. verse of the V. chapter of the booke of Ivdges : wherein occasion was iustly taken for the publication of some reasons, which His Sacred Maiestie had been ple... by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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Devotions vpon emergent occasions and seuerall steps in my sicknes : digested into I. Meditations vpon our humane condition, 2. Expostulations, and debatements with God, 3. Prayers... by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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Encænia : the Feast of Dedication, celebrated at Lincolnes Inne, in a sermon there vpon Ascension day, 1623 : at the dedication of a new chappell there, consecrated by the Right Re... by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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Poems / by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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Poems / by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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Three sermons vpon speciall occasions / by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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Deaths duell, or, A consolation to the soule, against the dying life, and living death of the body : deliuered in a sermon at White-Hall, before the Kings Maiestie, in the beginnin... by Donne, John, 1572-1631
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