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	John Donne (1572-1631)
		John Donne was a Metaphysical Poet in Renaissance England.
		Luminarium's John Donne Metaphysical Poet and Metaphysical Poetry are some of the best resources to help you study for an english literature degree and can be used to augment a GRE Test Prep course.
		Donne's meditations are among the most famous and his devotions and love poems the most romantic.
	www.luminarium.org /sevenlit/donne (1613 words)

	John Donne - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Donne's court career was ruined by the discovery of his marriage in 1601 to Anne More, niece to Sir Thomas Egerton's second wife, and he was imprisoned for a short time.
		Donne was one of the most eloquent preachers of his day.
		Original, witty, erudite, and often obscure, Donne's style is characterized by a brilliant use of paradox, hyperbole, and imagery.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-donne-jo.html (660 words)

	John Donne
		Donne's parents were Catholics, and his mother, Elizabeth Heywood, was directly descended from the sister of the great Sir Thomas More; she was the daughter of John Heywood the epigrammatist.
		As a child, Donne's precocity was such that it was said of him that "this age hath brought forth another Pico della Mirandola." He entered Hart Hall, Oxford, in October 1584, and left it in 1587, proceeding for a time to Cambridge, where he took his degree.
		Donne soon after formed part of the brilliant assemblage which Lucy, countess of Bradford, gathered around her at Twickenham; we possess several of the verse epistles he addressed to this lady.
	www.nndb.com /people/347/000085092 (2238 words)

	The Life of John Donne (1572-1631)
		Donne's father died suddenly in 1576, and left the three children to be raised by their mother, Elizabeth, who was the daughter of epigrammatist and playwright John Heywood and a relative of Sir Thomas More.
		Donne later summed up the experience: "John Donne, Anne Donne, Undone." Anne's cousin offered the couple refuge in Pyrford, Surrey, and the couple was helped by friends like Lady Magdalen Herbert, George Herbert's mother, and Lucy, Countess of Bedford, women who also played a prominent role in Donne's literary life.
		Donne was employed by the religious pamphleteer Thomas Morton, later Bishop of Durham.
	www.luminarium.org /sevenlit/donne/donnebio.htm (1376 words)

	Amazon.ca: Love Poems of John Donne: Books: Charles Fowkes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		John Donne's standing as one of the greatest poets in the English language is now thoroughly established, and critics such as T. Eliot and F. Leavis have found in Donne's poetry qualities profoundly responsive to the modern age.
		The opportunity to select and introduce a collection of the love poetry of John Donne was irresistible to him, and his essay is a refreshing look at one of the finest wordsmiths the English language has known.
		In terms of class Anne was by far Donne's superior, and her father forbade the marriage.
	www.amazon.ca /Love-Poems-Donne-Charles-Fowkes/dp/0312499442 (644 words)

	PoetryFoundation.org: Reading Guide: John Donne
		Donne and Anne (we might as well call her Anne) believe it's more important to be in love than to be on time: they won't let the hour, or the month, or even their relative ages, tell them what to do.
		Donne could occlude or outshine the sun (because he, too, is a celestial body), but he won't (because then his beloved would not see him, and he would not see her).
		Donne's conceit describes the sun as a human being who walks in on the lovers, and then—with help from what was, to Donne, modern science—makes himself and his beloved into their own cosmic entity, their own world.
	www.poetryfoundation.org /features/feature.guidebook.html?id=177309 (1234 words)

	John Donne's "A Valediciton: forbidding mourning" and comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Donne's basic argument was that most people's relationships are built on purely sensual things - if they are not together at all times, the relationship breaks down.
		Donne asserts that the love between him and his wife is different - it is not a purely sensual relationship, but something deeper, a "love of the mind" rather than a "love of the body".
		Donne is then very disparaging of the love of the rest of the population.
	www.lardcave.net /tig/hsc/2eng-donne-valediction-comments.html (1297 words)

	Donne, John Criticism and Essays
		Donne was the grandson of the dramatist John Heywood, the nephew of Jasper Heywood, who led the Jesuit mission to England in the 1580s, and a great-great-nephew of the Catholic martyr Sir Thomas More.
		Defiant, Donne left Oxford and pursued legal studies at the Inns of Court in London, where he was known both for his dandyism and his serious study of legal and religious issues.
		Donne became something of a cult figure in the 1920s and 1930s when modernist poets Eliot and Yeats, among others, discovered in his poetry the fusion of intellect and passion that they aspired to in their own work.
	www.enotes.com /poetry-criticism/donne-john (1397 words)

	The Oxford Review - 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Donne is surely not all we are and have been; he does not revive the memory of our whole selves" (Cathcart 1).
		Donne has blended sex into a religious poem to show that the feelings the speaker experiences with God are similar to the ecstasy of carnal desires.
		Most of the literature published about John Donne's Holy Sonnet XIV has strongly emphasized the sexuality of the work; however, some of the same authors that call attention to these elements have also made insightful observations about the religious experience that seems to be buried beneath the poem's sexual language.
	www.emory.edu /OXFORD/Publications/Review/donne.html (2925 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Love Poems of John Donne: Livres en anglais: John Donne,Charles Fowkes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While Donne is famous for his religious poetry, his love poems are among the most beautiful ever written, and this collection brings them together for the first time.
		Donne was a man who knew all the many faces of love-- physical passion, jealousy, rapture, grief and parting-- and possessed the genius to distill his experiences into poetry.
		Before Donne was ordained as a priest in 1615, he wrote sonnets (such as "The Dream" and "The Ecstasy"), elegies (such as "To His Mistress Going to Bed" and "Love's Progress"), and wedding songs ("St. Valentine's Day" and "Epithalamion"), all of which glitter with an eroticism that truly marries body and soul.
	www.amazon.fr /Love-Poems-John-Donne/dp/0312499442 (521 words)

	English 25: John Donne
		James I, in 1615, declared that Donne couldn't be employed outside the church.
		Donne had published a couple of anti-Catholic treatises a few years before, and this public renunciation of the old faith did a lot to clean up his image in the eyes of the official powers.
		Donne accepted the post of Royal Chaplain later that same year (he already had a Doctor of Divinity degree from Cambridge a couple of years earlier).
	www.unc.edu /~spirko/donnenotes.html (559 words)

	Donne and 17th-Century Poetry study questions
		The latter group to a certain extent overlapped with the "cavalier" poets, so called because most of them were aristocrats who gallantly supported the lost cause of Charles Stuart (loyalty to the monarch was a part of their aristocratic code).
		John Donne was the acknowledged leader of the poets today identified as "metaphysical" (though they themselves would not have used the term, nor have considered themselves to constitute a "school" of poetry).
		Notice Donne's use of the so-called "metaphysical conceit" in such poems as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (the image of the twin compasses in stanzas 7-9).
	cla.calpoly.edu /~dschwart/engl331/donne.html (3373 words)

	John Donne biography
		Donne did not take a degree at either university, because as a Catholic he could not take the required Oath of Supremacy at graduation.
		Donne reluctantly agreed, and in 1615 he was appointed Royal Chaplain, and the following year he gained the post of Reader in Divinity at Lincoln's Inn.
		John Donne is remembered for the wit and poignancy of his poetry, though in his own time he was known as much for his mesmerizing sermons and preaching style.
	britainexpress.com /History/bio/donne.htm (489 words)

	John Donne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Donne's brother Henry was convicted of harboring a Catholic priest and sent to prison, where he died of bubonic plague.
		Donne was elected as Member of Parliament for the constituency of Brackley in the same year, but this was not a paid position and Donne struggled to provide for his family, relying heavily upon rich friends.
		Donne's Holy Sonnets formed the backdrop to the 1998 play Wit (and it's 2001 TV movie version); the play's main character is a Donne scholar dying of cancer, and "Death Be Not Proud" (Holy Sonnet X) figures prominently.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Donne (1367 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - John Donne
		Donne reached beyond the rational and hierarchical structures of the seventeenth century with his exacting and ingenious conceits, advancing the exploratory spirit of his time.
		Donne entered the world during a period of theological and political unrest for both England and France; a Protestant massacre occurred on Saint Bartholomew's day in France; while in England, the Catholics were the persecuted minority.
		Born into a Roman Catholic family, Donne's personal relationship with religion was tumultuous and passionate, and at the center of much of his poetry.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/243 (674 words)

	SparkNotes: Donne's Poetry: Analysis
		John Donne, whose poetic reputation languished before he was rediscovered in the early part of the twentieth century, is remembered today as the leading exponent of a style of verse known as "metaphysical poetry," which flourished in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
		Donne is valuable not simply as a representative writer but also as a highly unique one.
		Donne, who lived a generation after Shakespeare, took advantage of his divided nature to become the greatest metaphysical poet of the seventeenth century; among the poets of inner conflict, he is one of the greatest of all time.
	www.sparknotes.com /poetry/donne/analysis.html (305 words)

	Digital Musings: John Donne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Following his imprisonment, John Donne struggled to survive until he joined the Anglican church in 1615, where he became chaplain to James I. In 1621, John Donne was named as the dean of St. Paul's Cathedral.
		The young Jack Donne often paralleled his passionate love affairs with the religion of the church, but interestingly enough when he began writing his religious poems, he began comparing it to sex.
		Donne's poem, "The Extasie" is a clear example of his metaphysical comparisons and is one of my favorites.
	www.etsu.edu /english/muse/donne.htm (302 words)

	Donne Undone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Donne, seventeenth—century poet and Anglican divine, was perhaps the premier exponent of the "metaphysical" school of poetry that was characterized by "wit," the clever deployment of language in grappling with large subjects pertaining to God and the soul.
		Donne scholars, we are given to understand, consider themselves superior to those who study other authors.
		At first the play seems to be suggesting that Vivian’s interpretations of Donne, in which he is seen to be playing mind—games and nothing more, are a reflection of her own cold, brilliant, over—intellectualized habit of thought.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0002/opinion/iannone.html (1321 words)

	Donne
		Donne was born in1572 into a Catholic family, which placed him at quite a disadvantage during the Elizabethan era.
		But in 1601, 29-year-old John Donne made a rash move: he ran away with 17-year-old Anne More, who was his employer's niece and the daughter of a powerful man who vehemently disapproved of the marriage.
		The poetry of John Donne and the other metaphysical poets was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century, when it had profound influence on the lyric poetry of the early 20th century, specifically that of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and others.
	spider.georgetowncollege.edu /english/allen/donne.htm (633 words)

	John Donne - Biography and Works
		Donne was born in London to a prominent Roman Catholic family but converted to Anglicanism during the 1590s.
		Donne became a priest of the Anglican Church in 1615 and was appointed royal chaplain later that year.
		Whatever the subject, Donne's poems reveal the same characteristics that typified the work of the metaphysical poets: dazzling wordplay, often explicitly sexual; paradox; subtle argumentation; surprising contrasts; intricate psychological analysis; and striking imagery selected from nontraditional areas such as law, physiology, scholastic philosophy, and mathematics.
	www.online-literature.com /donne (1802 words)

	Donne
		John Donne is buried in St Paul's Cathedral, London.
		A statue was built in his memory by Nicholas Stone based upon a drawing commissioned by Donne himself as he lay dying.
		In 1601 Donne secretly married Ann More, the neice of Lady Egerton, and as a result lost his position as private secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton.
	www.poetsgraves.co.uk /donne.htm (262 words)

	Books of the poet: John Donne - book works writings work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Donne on the other hand is different; most of what he writes in English sounds good and is immediately understandable.
		Donne's greatness as a poet is in part in his making passionate argument of ideas, in his fusing the world of sense and idea in startling combinations.
		Donne, on the other hand, after years of carousing, found his soul mate and his one true love and continued to be devoted to her years after she died.
	www.poemhunter.com /john-donne/books/poet-3054 (2379 words)

	John Donne at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources
		Donne's metaphysical poetry and the irregular techniques he employed which were so unique for his time had a profound influence on many authors.
		DONNE, JOHN (1573—1631), English poet and divine of the reign of James I, was born in 1573 in the parish of St Nicholas Olave, in the city Of London.
		As a child, Donne’s precocity was such that it was said of him that “this age hath brought forth another Pico della Mirandola.” He entered H...
	www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Donne (731 words)

	Study Questions Donne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		What is the contrast John Donne is making between "sublunary lover's love" and the "refined" or heavenly love between the speaker and the implied audience?
		Donne makes up a neologism: he refers to being "inter-assurèd" of the mind.
		What does Donne mean when he says, "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main"?
	web.cn.edu /kwheeler/study/362_Donne_02.html (1480 words)

	Donne
		Donne brings these satiric poems were written atabout the same batter my heart.
		Donne returned to john donne as some accounts, he is comparing women to know for the donnes.
		Phase ii john donne or in a scholarship for her whom the bell tolling softly.
	donne.andresmarin.net (423 words)

	John Donne - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		La obra del joven Donne era notable por su estilo realista y sensual, e incluía muchos sonetos y canciones, así como versos satíricos; el lenguage vibrante y la inmediatez de sus metáforas lo separó de sus contemporáneos.
		Donne se resistió a aceptarlos pero, después de un largo período de penurias económicas, durante el cual fue dos veces miembro de parlamento (en 1601 y 1614), finalmente sucumbió a los deseos del rey y asumió su cargo en 1615.
		La obra de Donne también esta caracterizada por su notable ingenio, que hace uso de paradojas, juegos de palabras y sutiles, brillantes analogías.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Donne (784 words)

	Concerto delle donne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The founding of the concerto delle donne was the most important event in secular Italian music in the late sixteenth century; the musical innovations established in the court were important in the development of the madrigal, and eventually the seconda pratica.
		This new ensemble, the concerto delle donne, was created by Alfonso in part to amuse his young new wife, Margherita Gonzaga d'Este (she was only fifteen when they wed in 1579), and in part to help the Duke achieve his artistic goals for the court.
		Specific ornaments used by the concerto delle donne, mentioned in a source from 1581, were such popular sixteenth-century devices as passaggi (division of a long note into many shorter notes, usually stepwise), cadenze (decoration of the penultimate note, sometimes quite elaborate), and tirate (rapid scales).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Concerto_delle_donne (3031 words)

	Island of Freedom - John Donne
		John Donne was the most outstanding of the English Metaphysical Poets and a churchman famous for his spellbinding sermons.
		Donne's secret marriage in 1601 to Egerton's niece, Anne More, resulted in his dismissal from this position and in a brief imprisonment.
		It was formerly assumed that Donne's poetry reflected the growth of "Jack Donne" libertine into "Dr. John Donne," the somber dean of St. Paul's; that sensual love poetry typified his youth, while obsessive thoughts of sin and death characterized his later career.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /DONNE.HTM (830 words)

	John Donne
		Donne (rhymes with "sun") was born in 1573 (his father died in 1576) into a Roman Catholic family, and from 1584 to 1594 was educated at Oxford and Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn (this last a highly regarded law school).
		Donne, at the time of this writing, is ill with a fever.
		Note: John Donne's complete poems appear in collections published by Viking Press (paperback), and as part of Everyman's Library and the Modern Library Series, and one can even get selections on an audio tape.
	www.satucket.com /lectionary/John_Donne.htm (2224 words)

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