john donne

     

John Donne (pronounce like done, IPA: /dʌn/; 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works are notable for their realistic and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, compared with that of his contemporaries. He is famous for his Holy Sonnets.

Trivia about john donne

  • Izaak knew this "No Man is an Island" author when he was vicar of St. Dunstan's
  • "Batter My Heart" is one of the best-known "Holy Sonnets" by this author of "Death, Be Not Proud"
  • "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so"
  • In "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions", he wrote, "No man is an island, entire of itself"
  • In "The Baite" he wrote "Come live with mee, & bee my love"
  • His "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions" says, "Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee"
  • "One short sleep past, we wake eternally, / And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die"
  • The famous "Death be not proud" line is from this man's "Holy Sonnets"
  • This "Death Be Not Proud" poet was an Anglican priest who became Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1621

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