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	John Donne - LoveToKnow 1911
		JOHN DONNE (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.
		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.
		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.1911encyclopedia.org /John_Donne (2133 words)

	John Donne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Donne (pronounced "Dun"; 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, the representative of the so-called metaphysical poets of the period, though the term itself came after his death.
		Donne was regarded as an eloquent preacher, using his style to become known as one of the greatest preachers of the era.
		John Donne is considered a master of the conceit, an extended metaphor that combines two vastly unlike ideas into a single idea, often using imagery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Donne (1034 words)

	Donne, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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.
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		John Donne: Tutte le informazioni su John Donne su Encyclopedia.it
		John Donne (Londra, 1572 - 1631), fu un religioso inglese, decano della cattedrale londinese di St. Paul, ed uno fra i più grandi poeti metafisici.
		Cresciuto in una famiglia che professava il cattolicesimo, Donne studiò dal 1584 a Oxford e, successivamente, a Cambridge; viaggiò per l'Europa e nel 1595 accompagnò il conte di Essex nelle spedizioni inglesi a Cadice e alle Azzorre.
	www.encyclopedia.it /j/jo/john_donne.html (569 words)

	Digital Musings: John Donne
		John Donne was born in London, England in 1572.
		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.
		John Donne will always be considered as one of the greatest metaphysical poets to ever pick up a pen and paper.
	www.etsu.edu /English/Muse/donne.htm (302 words)

	The Anglican Library - John Donne (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Donne was known to the king, however, and after failing to secure a position in other fields of endeavor, he acceded to the king's desire that he enter the ordained ministry.
		Donne is the first and greatest of the group known as the Metaphysical Poets.
		Donne's Divine Poems are marked by unsurpassed passion, and much of his poetry explores the paradox of sexual experience in the religious and spiritual force in earthly passions.
	www.anglicanlibrary.org /donne (256 words)

	The Life of John Donne (1572-1631)
		John Donne was born in Bread Street, London in 1572 to a prosperous Roman Catholic family - a precarious thing at a time when anti-Catholic sentiment was rife in England.
		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.
	www.luminarium.org /sevenlit/donne/donnebio.htm (1377 words)

	Pianist Chris Jarrett - John Donne (a poetic opera)
		In this sense, "John Donne" is indeed an historical opera.
		"John Donne" is not only an opera about the life of a genius - it asks questions about the results of (all varieties of) political repression, and about the moral limits of adaptability; but also about the power of compromise and self-sacrifice.
		"John Donne" is scored for: 2 piccolos, 2 flutes, 2 Bb clarinets, 1 bass-clarinet, 3 tenor saxophones, 2 bassoons, 1 counter-bassoon, 4 French horns, 3 trompets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, percussion (military drum, 2 tom-toms, snare, tympani, gong, temple-block, cymbals, and whip), harp, piano, celesta and strings.
	www.chrisjarrett.de /donne_en.html (632 words)

	John Donne biography
		John Donne was born to a prosperous London ironmonger (also named John Donne), in 1572.
		Donne did not take a degree at either university, because as a Catholic he could not take the required Oath of Supremacy at graduation.
		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.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/bio/donne.htm (489 words)

	Some Notes to John Donne Studies
		Donne's "vexacious contraries" thus are "integral to the process by which the poetry finally negates itself as a representation of truth" (53).
		Donne here specifically disdains poetic imitation, signaling a shift from classical and medieval concerns, and "the clear implication" for Low is that "the religious and cultural architecture within which love poetry once subsisted, has been ruthlessly dismantled...
		DONNE'S SELF-SERVING MOTIVE: Shuger finds that Donne's emphasis on unresolved scriptural ambiguity leaves the priest with the power of interpretation, a power he stresses over and over in his sermons (208); "thus," she writes, "despite Donne's deep desire to submit to God, he also has no small interest in associating himself with divine authority" (207).
	persiancaesar.com /donne.htm (5730 words)

	PoetryFoundation.org: Reading Guide: John Donne
		John Donne (1572-1631) wrote a prose work called Paradoxes and Problems, and his life presents plenty of both: he was born a Catholic, gained notoriety for sacrilegious verse, and later in life became an Anglican priest.
		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).
	www.poetryfoundation.org /features/feature.guidebook.html?id=177309 (2416 words)

	John Donne
		In the spring of 1616, Donne was presented to the living of Keyston, in Hunts, and a little later he became rector of Sevenoaks; the latter preferment he held until his death.
		Donne died on the 31st of March 1631, after he had lain "fifteen days earnestly expecting his hourly change." His aged mother, who had lived in the Deanery, survived him, dying in 1632.
		To the odd terminology of Donne's poetic philosophy Dryden gave the name of "metaphysics", and Samuel Johnson, borrowing the suggestion, invented the title of the "metaphysical school" to describe, not Donne only, but all the amorous and philosophical poets who succeeded him, and who employed a similarly fantastic language, and who affected odd figurative inversions.
	www.nndb.com /people/347/000085092 (2238 words)

	The Love poetry of John Donne
		Donne's Songs and Sonnets do not describe a single unchanging view of love; they express a wide variety of emotions and attitudes, as if Donne himself were trying to define his experience of love through his poetry.
		Donne's poems are extraordinarily witty and ingenious, but this does not exclude the possibility that they also contain strong emotion.
		Donne's poems are quite capable of stirring the emotions, and no matter how clever his conceits, or revolutionary his thought, his poems would not work without a seed of genuine feeling at their centre.
	www.literature-study-online.com /essays/donne.html (1660 words)

	John Donne Biography and Summary
		John Donne (1572-1631), English metaphysical poet, Anglican divine, and pulpit orator, is ranked with Milton as one of the greatest English poets.
		John Donne is now recognized as one of the great originals in the history of English poetry and as an equally accomplished master of English prose.
		John Donne (pronounced "Dun"; 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean metaphysical poet.
	www.bookrags.com /John_Donne (427 words)

	National Portrait Gallery \| Sponsorship and donations \| John Donne Appeal \| Chronology
		Donne is appointed Secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton and moves to quarters at York House, The Strand.
		Donne travels abroad with Sir Robert Drury and his family, and writes An Anatomy of the World (The First Anniversary) and The Progress of the Soul (The Second Anniversary) on the death of the youngest daughter, Elizabeth Drury.
		Donne's eldest daughter, Constance, marries Edward Alleyn, the Elizabethan actor and theatre-manager.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/prjohndonnechrono.asp (384 words)

	John Donne — Poet Seers
		John Donne was the most outstanding of the English Metaphysical Poets and a churchman famous for his spellbinding sermons.
		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.
	www.poetseers.org /the_great_poets/british_poets/john_donne (671 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.
		Take the poet, John Donne — 1572 — 1631 and comment on how the life and times of his era is reflected in their writing.
	www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Donne (731 words)

	National Portrait Gallery \| Sponsorship and donations \| John Donne Appeal
		Following the launch of the John Donne Appeal in January this year with support from The Art Fund, the Gallery has just received a significant grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) to acquire an exceptional portrait of the acclaimed metaphysical poet John Donne (1572 - 1631).
		John Donne was one of the most talented writers of his age and his work, which encompassed poetry, verse letters, essays and sermons, including such famous poems as The Bait, The Flea and A Valediction: forbidding Mourning, came to be widely celebrated.
		The picture can be traced in John Donne's will where it is described as 'that picture of mine which is taken in shadows and was made very many years before I was of this profession [i.e.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/prjohndonneappeal.asp (383 words)

	John Donne - Christianbook.com
		John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century.
		Donne's poetry is highly distinctive and individual, adopting a multitude of rhythms, images, forms, and personae, from irresistible seducer to devout believer.
		Donne reads in the body God's great love for the material, the ravages of the Fall, God's redemptive action in Christ and in the lives of the saints, and the literal and figurative deaths that serve as gateways to resurrection and eschatological fulfillment.
	www.christianbook.com /Christian/Books/cms_content/296877970?page=586787&sp=68636 (980 words)

	John Donne's Devotions \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		Donne’s and his wife’s living in Sir Robert’s house, the Lord Hay was, by King James, sent upon a glorious embassy to the then French King, Henry the Fourth; and Sir Robert put on a sudden resolution to accompany him to the French Court, and to be present at his audience there.
		Donne’s reply was: “I cannot be surer that I now live than that I have not slept since I saw you: and am as sure that at her second appearing she stopped and looked me in the face, and vanished.” Rest and sleep had not altered Mr.
		Donne’s being his Lordship’s Secretary—that reverend man did receive the news with much gladness; and, after some expressions of joy, and a persuasion to be constant in his pious purpose, he proceeded with all convenient speed to ordain him first Deacon, and then Priest not long after.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/donne/devotions.all.html (7471 words)

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	John Donne - Biography and Works
		John Donne (1572-1631) was the most outstanding of the English Metaphysical Poets and a churchman famous for his spellbinding sermons.
		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.
	www.online-literature.com /donne (1474 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: John Donne
		Donne was born in 1572, the son of John Donne, a prosperous London ironmonger, who claimed descent from Welsh gentry.
		Donne inherited half a tooth of Sir Thomas and always remained proud of his ancestry.
		But Donne's withdrawal from the church of his upbringing need not have been unprincipled or cowardly, though self-interest and prudence had their say.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4870 (625 words)

	Donne,John Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris
		Donne was the greatest of the English Metaphysical poets; his poetry is noted for its unique fusion of wit and seriousness as well as its metaphorical complexity.
		John Donne's enormous legacy to English literature is of equal significance in prose and poetry, in writings both religious and secular.
		John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century, and has often been referred to as the founder of the metaphysical genre.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Donne,John (1074 words)

	John Donne - History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John Donne was raised as a Roman Catholic in a time when merely being Catholic could get you sent to prison, and harboring a priest anywhere in England could get you executed in very nasty ways.
		Donne studied law at a university, but never recieved a degree because he wouldn't take the oath declaring the King of England as the head of the church.
		Donne served as a soldier and a courtier for several years before he finally became an apostate, meaning he renounced his ties with the Catholic church.
	cs1.mcm.edu /~rayb/hist_donne.htm (351 words)

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