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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).
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"
Sonnet II", also known by its opening words as "As Due By Many Titles", is a poem written by John Donne, who is considered to be one of the representatives of the metaphysical poetry in English literature. It was first published in 1633, two years after Donne’s death. It is included in the Holy Sonnets – a
Batter my heart, three-person'd God; C. The Canonization; D. Death Be Not Proud; The Dream (Donne poem) E. ... The Holy Sonnets of John Donne; A Hymn to God the ...
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]
"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.
Musical settings of poems by John Donne (4 P) W. Works by John Donne (2 C) Pages in category "John Donne" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.