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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").
"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.
"Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed", originally spelled "To His Mistris Going to Bed", is a poem written by the metaphysical poet John Donne.. The elegy was refused a licence for publishing in Donne's posthumous collection Poems in 1633, but was printed in an anthology, The Harmony of the Muses, in 1654. [1]
"The Renegade" is a poem by David Diop which blackguards those Africans who have espoused European customs at the expense of their African roots. Critics have noted, sometimes pointedly, that Diop himself spent most of his life outside Africa. The point of view is first person singular and the persona uses apostrophe to address the alienated ...
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.
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry is a 1947 collection of essays by Cleanth Brooks. It is considered a seminal text [1] in the New Critical school of literary criticism. The title contains an allusion to the fourth stanza of John Donne's poem, "The Canonization", which is the primary subject of the first chapter of the book.
It is included in the Holy Sonnets – a series of poems written by John Donne. According to the currently adopted sequence, the poem comes second in the order. [ 1 ] It has also appeared in all of the proposed sequences so far - changes in positioning were, however, minimal, as the poem has remained in the first or second position ever since ...
Biathanatos (from Greek Βιαθανατος meaning "violent death") is a work by the English writer and clergyman John Donne.Written in 1608 and published after his death, [1] it contains a heterodox defense of "self-homicide" (), listing prominent Biblical examples including Jesus, Samson, Saul, and Judas Iscariot.