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"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a metaphysical poem by John Donne. Written in 1611 or 1612 for his wife Anne before he left on a trip to Continental Europe , "A Valediction" is a 36-line love poem that was first published in the 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets , two years after Donne's death.
There is no scholarly consensus regarding the structure of Holy Sonnet XIV; different critics refer to particular parts of this poem either as an octave and a sestet (following the style of the Petrarchan sonnet, with a prominent example being Robert H. Ray's argument [4]), three quatrains and a couplet (the division established by the English sonnet, an example being an article by ...
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (1611) The Courtier's Library (1611, published 1651) The First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World (1611) The Second Anniversary: Of the Progress of the Soul (1612) Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624) The Good-Morrow (1633) The Canonization (1633) Holy Sonnets (1633) As Due By Many Titles (1633) Death Be ...
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The dating of the poems' composition has been tied to the dating of Donne's conversion to Anglicanism. His first biographer, Izaak Walton, claimed the poems dated from the time of Donne's ministry (he became a priest in 1615); modern scholarship agrees that the poems date from 1609 to 1610, the same period during which he wrote an anti-Catholic polemic, Pseudo-Martyr.
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The poem features images typical of the Petrarchan sonnet, yet they are more than the "threadbare Petrarchan conventionalities". [1] In critic Clay Hunt's view, the entire poem gives "a new twist to one of the most worn conventions of Elizabethan love poetry" by expanding "the lover–saint conceit to full and precise definition", a comparison that is "seriously meant". [2]
The Harmonie of the Muses; Or, The Gentlemans and Ladies Choisest Recreation, an anthology from nine contributors; includes several by John Donne, "Elegy XVII" (here titled "Loves Progress by Dr Don) and "Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed" (here titled "An Elegie made by J.D."), as well as Donne's "A Valediction: forbidding Mourning ...