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	John Donne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Donne (pronounced "Dun" ; 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a major English poet and writer, and perhaps the greatest of the metaphysical poets.
		Donne was born and raised in a Roman Catholic family.
		John Donne posed in his funeral shroud for this engraving and kept the print by his bedside for nightly contemplation of it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Donne (809 words)

	Donne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Donne was the son of John Donne, a prosperous London ironmonger, and a daughter of John Heywood, the dramatist.
		Donne was very keen to get on in the world and his circle of friends was a mixture of noblemen, poets, and intellectuals; he needed a'place'in that world and he was miserable out of it, as a man of his learning would be.
		Donne wrote 51 stanzas of ten lines each; the 52nd seems to be a later, hurried 'full-stop' to what was intended to be a longer poem but one he knew that he would not complete.
	www.hertford.ox.ac.uk /alumni/donne.htm (2678 words)

	John Donne
		John Donne (pronounced "Dun" ; 1572 - March 31, 1631) was a major English poet and writer, and probably the greatest of the metaphysical poets.
		Two of Donne’s relatives had been punished for their Catholicism; his brother had died of a fever in prison after harboring a priest, and an uncle, a Jesuit, executed by being hanged, drawn, quartered and disemboweled.
		Donne was educated at both Oxford (Hertford College) and Cambridge.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_donne.html (825 words)

	Introduction to Poetry Online Chapter 8 -- Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1591, John and Henry Donne were enrolled at Thavies Inn in London, a preparatory school for the study of law, and on May 6, 1592, John Donne was admitted to law school at Lincoln's Inn, one of the Inns of Court.
		Donne was dismissed from his post--a turn of events that he famously announced to his bride in a letter with the phrase "John Donne, Ann Donne, undone"--and even briefly imprisoned.
		Donne can hardly be said to have had a literary career in the conventional sense of the term, since only four of his poems were published in his lifetime, two of which he later disavowed.
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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 (581 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.
	www.bartleby.com /65/do/Donne-Jo.html (546 words)

	Biography of John Donne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The metaphysical poet and clergyman John Donne was one of the most influential poets of the Renaissance.
		John was born to a prominent Roman Catholic family from London in 1572.
		Donne performed the eulogy for his own funeral and even posted for a portrait in his death shroud shortly before his death in 1631, of an unknown terminal illness.
	isu.indstate.edu /ilnprof/ENG451/ISLAND/bio.html (429 words)

	John Donne biography
		John Donne was born to a prosperous London ironmonger (also named John Donne), in 1572.
		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.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/bio/donne.htm (497 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)

	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.
		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.
	www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Donne (735 words)

	John Donne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At the prompting of King James I Donne was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1615.
		Donne suggests the human condition is never strong enough on its own to withstand the lures of Satan and thus needs God's grace to constantly re-make, "make me new," in a repeating cycle like the phoenix rising from the ashes.
		Donne may not be quite this radical, but he seems on the whole committed to a doctrine of justification by faith that regards it as solely God's work.
	www.st-petersweb.org /lesson1.html (3489 words)

	John Donne Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The John Donne Journal is published annually by the English Department, North Carolina State University, and is sponsored by the John Donne Society.
		John Donne and the Cultural Contradicitons of Christmas.
		Donne, Henry Wotton, and the Earl of Essex, 185-218.
	www.ncsu.edu /johndonne (1473 words)

	John Donne - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	The Betrothal Of Saint Catherine - Hans Memling
		The arrangement of the central panel of this triptych is similar to the Altman picture, except that the figures of Sir John Donne, his wife, and daughter kneel in the foreground and that the setting is an open hall with columns instead of the garden.
		Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist have been added and the simple columns of the early version, like those of a cloister, are here arranged like the columns of the ambulatory of the apse in a cathedrala forest of columns.
		Then the austere figures of Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist are lacking in our variant and the maze of pillars and the pavement covered with an Eastern carpet have given place to the smiling countryside and the wild flowers growing in the grass.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles31n/paintings-42.shtml (751 words)

	John Donne
		Born of Catholic parents, John, a prosperous ironmonger and Elizabeth Donne.
		Donne becomes member of Parliament for Bracley in Northamptonshire.
		Donne family move to Mitcham and Donne becomes a Protestant.
	www.britainunlimited.com /Biogs/Donne.htm (257 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 (832 words)

	John Donne Sermons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Donne was born in 1572, into a financially comfortable family of London Catholics, who experienced the anti-Catholic persecution that ran rampant in Elizabethan England.
		Donne's father was an iron-merchant, and his mother was the daughter of John Heywood, writer of epigrams and interludes, and the great-niece of Sir Thomas More.
		Donne's last sermon at Court, which was published posthumously under the title Death's Duell, followed a period of extended illness during which the preacher appears to have been preparing for his own imminent death.
	www.lib.byu.edu /donne/bio.html (491 words)

	Donne, John
		Donne was born in London; at the age of 11 he entered the University of Oxford, where he studied for three years.
		Donne's principal literary accomplishments during this period were Divine Poems (1607) and the prose work Biathanatos (posthumously published 1644).
		Donne was almost forgotten during the 18th century, but interest in his work developed during the 19th century, and his popularity reached new heights after the 1920s, when Ezra Pound and T. Eliot acknowledged his influence.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/D/donnejohn/1.html (776 words)

	John Donne's Devotions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Donne was first enlarged, who neither gave rest to his body or brain, nor to any friend in whom he might hope to have an interest, until he had procured an enlargement for his two imprisoned friends.
		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.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/donne/devotions.htm (7884 words)

	John Donne
		John didn't stay in prison long, but even when he got out, his old job was pretty much out of the question.
		John tried his best to make a living by writing poems for patrons, but he was really too proud to be properly obsequious to these patrons.
		John was just lucky that he'd become a Protestant by then, or there really would have been some fireworks.
	incompetech.com /authors/donne (701 words)

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	Donne, John -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Donne is often considered the greatest love poet in the English language.
		Donne's influence was vast; the taste for wit and conceits reemerged in dozens of minor lyricists, among them courtiers such as Aurelian Townshend, William Habington, and William Cartwright and religious poets such as Francis Quarles and Henry King.
		The English poet, diplomat, and art connoisseur Sir Henry Wotton was a friend of the great poets John Donne and John Milton.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9030933 (724 words)

	John Donne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Donne achieves a rare feeling of freedom, and even of liberation in the midst of his strict formality; and in some of the lyrics, he conjures the spirit of Ovid far more effectively than in his Elegies (e.g.
		Donne also utilises the courtly Petrarchan style, used by Sydney, Spencer and the early Shakespeare; this is earlier than and appears to sit uncomfortably with the Neoplatonic view.
		Occasionally in Donne and his contemporaries, we meet a reference to poetry as architecture; this is to do with the complexity and balance of the structure (correspondingly, God is sometimes viewed in the period as an architect).
	www.btinternet.com /~Stephen.Dailly/writing/resources/donne.htm (6770 words)

	John Donne and Metaphysical Conceits
		He and John Donne, and Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace are considered the more important metaphysical poets.
		John Donne wrote his own response, "The Bait." It may be read at either of these Donne poetry sites.
		Donne's "Flea" poem is written in response to a number of Petrarchan "flea" poems such as the one including in the "Two Parallel poems" link provided here.
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		Donne and Sir Edmund Gosse.(John Donne) (New Criterion)
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	Cordula's Web. John Donne
		John Donne 's section in the DMOZ Open Directory.
		John Donne (pronounced "Dun"; 1572 - March 31, 1631) was a major English poet and writer, and probably the greatest of the metaphysical poets.
		We have a winding sheet in our mothers womb, he told his listeners, which grows with us from our conception, and we come into the world wound up in that winding sheet, for we come to seek a grave.
	www.cordula.ws /a-donnej.html (904 words)

	John Donne
		The poet, in a characteristic pun, later summed up the experience: "John Donne, Anne Donne, Undone." During the next few years Donne made a meager living as a lawyer, serving chiefly as counsel for Thomas Morton, an anti-Roman Catholic pamphleteer.
		The two Anniversaries--An Anatomy of the World (1611) and Of the Progress of the Soul (1612)--are elegies for 15-year-old Elizabeth Drury, whose death epitomized for Donne the decay of the world, physically and morally, and whose entry into heaven heralded its potential regeneration.
		Eliot, who championed the metaphysicals in the 20th century, praised Donne and his followers for achieving a "unification of sensibility." Donne's prose, almost equally metaphysical, ranks at least as high as his poetry.
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	BIO: John Donne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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).
		In some of these poems, Donne uses a convention that is a requirement of classical Latin poetry: the elision.
		Donne, at the time of this writing, is ill with a fever.
	www.hillsdale.edu /Personal/Westblade/REL/Biography/03/31.html (2027 words)

	John Donne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Donne was born in London, the son of a wealthy ironmonger and the maternal grandson of the playwright John Heywood.
		He trained as a lawyer at Lincoln's Inn where he became notorious for his wit and high living and in 1596 sailed as a volunteer with the Earl of Essex and Raleigh on the Cadiz expedition.
		Appointed on his return as chief secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, the Keeper of the Great Seal, he was subsequently dismissed and briefly imprisoned following the discovery of his secret illicit marriage to his employer's 17-year old niece, Ann Moore, with whom he went on to have 12 children.
	www.englishverse.com /poets/donne_john (205 words)

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