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"The Good-Morrow" is a poem by John Donne, published in his 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets. Written while Donne was a student at Lincoln's Inn , the poem is one of his earliest works and is thematically considered to be the "first" work in Songs and Sonnets .
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]
The Good-Morrow; H. Holy Sonnets; The Holy Sonnets of John Donne; A Hymn to God the Father; I. If Faithful Souls; S. The Sun Rising (poem) V. A Valediction ...
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.
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Sir Henry Goodyer, also spelled Goodere and Goodier (bapt. 21 August 1571 – 18 March 1627), was an English landowner and courtier, remembered today mainly for his close friendship with John Donne. [ 1 ]
Donne neatly hits the traditional estimate of love by expressing it in terms of an adventure”. [6] Here, Gransden commends Donne's comparison of sexual intercourse to an adventure, which was a modern way for his speaker to coax the mistress into bed. Donne's metaphysical conceit also dabbles in gendered power dynamics of early modern England.