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John Donne

1572-1631 GB, London
Spoken Word

John Donne (/ˈdʌn/ DUN) (22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adap

     
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Death Be Not Proud By John Donne on The Poetry Of Death - Volume 1 by Various Artists
Wilt thou forgive that sinne (An Hymne to God the Father) on The Rags of Time - 17th Century English Lute Songs & Dances by Paul Hillier & Nigel North
Sweet stay a while on The Rags of Time - 17th Century English Lute Songs & Dances by Paul Hillier & Nigel North
Goe and catch a fallinge star on The Rags of Time - 17th Century English Lute Songs & Dances by Paul Hillier & Nigel North
Spoken: The Sunne Rising (with lute version of "Sweetest Love") on The Rags of Time - 17th Century English Lute Songs & Dances by Paul Hillier & Nigel North
Break of day on The Rags of Time - 17th Century English Lute Songs & Dances by Paul Hillier & Nigel North
Wherefore peep'st thou on The Rags of Time - 17th Century English Lute Songs & Dances by Paul Hillier & Nigel North
Spoken: The good-morrow on The Rags of Time - 17th Century English Lute Songs & Dances by Paul Hillier & Nigel North
The Expiration on The Rags of Time - 17th Century English Lute Songs & Dances by Paul Hillier & Nigel North
Spoken: The Flea on The Rags of Time - 17th Century English Lute Songs & Dances by Paul Hillier & Nigel North

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Discography
Title Artist Year Type
DonneJohn Donne, Peter Orr / Richard Johnson / William Squire1970Album
The Metaphysical Poets, Record I: ReligiousJohn Donne, George Herbert, Francis Quarles, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne - Tony Church, Richard Marquand, Peter Orr, William Squire1965Album
Sermons And MeditationsJohn Donne1956Album
Poems By John Donne And William WordsworthJohn Donne And William Wordsworth Read By Christopher HassallAlbum
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