1572-1631 GB, London
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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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Donne | John Donne, Peter Orr / Richard Johnson / William Squire | 1970 | Album |
The Metaphysical Poets, Record I: Religious | John Donne, George Herbert, Francis Quarles, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne - Tony Church, Richard Marquand, Peter Orr, William Squire | 1965 | Album |
Sermons And Meditations | John Donne | 1956 | Album |
Poems By John Donne And William Wordsworth | John Donne And William Wordsworth Read By Christopher Hassall | Album |
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