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"Holy Sonnet XIV" – also known by its first line as "Batter my heart, three-person'd God" – is a poem written by the English poet John Donne (1572 – 1631). It is a part of a larger series of poems called Holy Sonnets , comprising nineteen poems in total.
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).
Both "As Due By Many Titles" and "Batter My Heart" (Sonnet XIV) suggest that "sin is something that happens to the sinner rather than something he does." [ 64 ] "Batter My Heart" is said to share similar images of captivity and liberation with "As Due By Many Titles," where the speaker "complains that he has been usurped by the devil and begs ...
Holy Sonnets (1633) As Due By Many Titles (1633) Death Be Not Proud (1633) The Sun Rising (1633) The Dream (1633) Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed (1633) Batter my heart, three-person'd God (1633) Poems (1633) Juvenilia: or Certain Paradoxes and Problems (1633) LXXX Sermons (1640) Fifty Sermons (1649) Essays in Divinity (1651)
The cycle consists of settings of nine of the nineteen Holy Sonnets of the English metaphysical poet John Donne (1572–1631). The following numberings are those of the Westmoreland manuscript of 1620, the most complete version of those sonnets. [6] IV: "Oh my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned" XIV: "Batter my heart, three person'd God"
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