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John Donne, aged about 42. Donne was born in 1572 to a wealthy ironmonger and a warden of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, and his wife Elizabeth. [2] After his father's death when he was four, Donne was trained as a gentleman scholar; his family used the money his father had made to hire tutors who taught him grammar, rhetoric, mathematics, history and foreign languages.
John Donne (/ d ĘŚ n / DUN; 1571 or 1572 [a] – 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. [2]
Essays in Divinity is a prose work by the poet and preacher John Donne.Likely written in 1614 before Donne took holy orders, [1]: ix this text consists of two extended explications and meditations on the first verses in the Biblical books of Genesis and Exodus, followed by prayers.
Handwritten draft of Donne's Sonnet XIV, "Batter my heart, three-person'd God", likely in the hand of Donne's friend, Rowland Woodward, from the Westmoreland manuscript (circa 1620) The Holy Sonnets—also known as the Divine Meditations or Divine Sonnets—are a series of nineteen poems by the English poet John Donne (1572–1631).
John Donne, Meditation XVII: Frequent Hearses: Edmund Crispin: Alexander Pope, "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady" From Here to Eternity: James Jones: Rudyard Kipling, "Gentlemen-Rankers" The Getting of Wisdom: Henry Handel Richardson: Bible: Proverbs 4:7 [5] A Glass of Blessings: Barbara Pym: George Herbert, "The Pulley" The Glory and ...
The book's title is taken from the metaphysical poet John Donne's series of meditations and prayers on health, pain, and sickness (written while Donne was convalescing from a nearly fatal illness) published in 1624 as Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, specifically Meditation XVII.
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In the 1633 print edition of Donne’s poems, "As Due By Many Titles" was placed first, opening the main cycle of twelve sonnets. [16] The octave here is "less dramatic" than the sestet, which would be "appropriate for the first poem of a meditative sequence that begins traditionally with an opening prayer."