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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's poetry represented a shift from classical forms to more personal poetry. Donne is noted for his poetic metre, which was structured with changing and jagged rhythms that closely resemble casual speech (it was for this that the more classical-minded Ben Jonson commented that "Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging"). [15]
No Man Is an Island may refer to: "No man is an island", originally "No man is an Iland", a famous line from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, a 1624 prose work by English poet John Donne; No Man Is an Island 1962 war film; No Man Is an Island the 1972 debut album from reggae singer Dennis Brown; No Man Is an Island, a 1955 book by the ...
Pages in category "Poetry by John Donne" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... The Holy Sonnets of John Donne; A Hymn to God the Father; I ...
"Sonnet X", also known by its opening words as "Death Be Not Proud", is a fourteen-line poem, or sonnet, by English poet John Donne (1572–1631), one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets group of seventeenth-century English literature. Written between February and August 1609, it was first published posthumously in 1633.
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.
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 ...
Poetry by John Donne (15 P) Prose works by John Donne (6 P) This page was last edited on 17 May 2024, at 05:10 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...