John Donne

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 adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques. His early career was marked by poetry that bore immense knowledge of English society and he met that knowledge with sharp criticism. Another important theme in Donne's poetry is the idea of true religion, something that he spent much time considering and about which he often theorized. He wrote secular poems as well as erotic and love poems. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits.

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The history of solitude has never been more relevant

The Independent 09 Apr 2020

When the poet John Donne was struck down by a sudden infection in 1623 he immediately found himself alone – even his doctors deserted him. The experience, which only lasted a week, was intolerable. He later wrote ... This has never seemed more relevant ... ....

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Lockdown lessons from the history of solitude

The Conversation 09 Apr 2020

Thomas Peham/Unsplash , FAL When the poet John Donne was struck down by a sudden infection in 1623 he immediately found himself alone – even his doctors deserted him ... Attitudes were changing by the time Donne, poet and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, was struck down by that sudden infection and deserted by all and sundry ... Some may suffer like Donne....

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Letter to the Editor: McCormick

Traverse City Record-Eagle 08 Apr 2020

Humankind ... But the most beautiful expression of our solidarity with all of God's children, whether in China or Michigan, may be the Elizabethan poet John Donne's famous lines in "No Man Is An Island". ... ....

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FAITH AND VALUES: Easing the hurt of farewell

Aiken Standard 05 Apr 2020

It was in the tradition of the great parting speeches of the leaders of Israel, from Moses to David and Solomon. But, of course, it was a farewell speech to beggar all other parting speeches ... But not yet ... Mrs ... “Death,” wrote the great English preacher John Donne, “thou shalt die!” And he might have added, “Separation, thou shalt no longer separate!”....

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A descent into darkness

Business Line 03 Apr 2020

I wonder, anyway, if the people with those stacks are reading anything except their Twitter feeds ... Forbidding Mourning, written by John Donne to comfort his wife when he had to travel away from her ... A scene from The Grapes of Wrath (1939), John Steinbeck’s angry, heart-rending account of migrant labour travelling across the country in search of work....

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Intriguing and uplifting: Long reads from The Conversation

The Conversation 03 Apr 2020

Weekend escapism. simona pilolla 2/Shutterstock Right now, the news cycle is faster and more anxiety-inducing than ever ... Looking forward ... Is love a cocktail of brain chemicals, or something else? Parashkev Nachev, professor of neurology at UCL, considers John Donne, the pair bonding of prairie voles and brain imaging experiments in his answer ... Love ... ....

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Four Ways COVID-19 will Change Food Systems and Food Security

Resilience 02 Apr 2020

It’s too early to have precise answers on the coronavirus pandemic’s long-term impacts on the ways food is produced, processed, distributed, eaten, recycled and appreciated ... TO BE OR NOT TO BE? ... It didn’t take long into social distancing before I started to go stir-crazy and recall the famous lines of John Donne’s meditation of the 1600s. ... It’s true ... ....

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Pseudacris crucifer

Democratic Underground 01 Apr 2020

I'm lucky that I'm enjoying the spring peepers in the late evening -to- early nighttime in recent days. I also like to listen to the birds during the day-time ... Four states in particular were hit the hardest ... John Donne was correct in that no man is an island, although we all wish we could deliver Trump to a solitary one far from civilization ... Live ... ....

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Road accidents are likely to kill more people than coronavirus. The world needs to keep perspective

South China Morning Post 29 Mar 2020

... than 50 years after poet John Donne wrote those words, in 1665 London was struck by the plague....

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This is how it happens

The Paducah Sun 27 Mar 2020

This is how this always happens. This is how disaster overtakes us. We can never see it coming. We have learned to avert, be prepared, and predict a lot of things over the past centuries ... Anyone who has had as little as 3 inches of water in a basement can attest to that ... Not very long ago, I quoted a short excerpt from John Donne’s Meditation 17 ... ....

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Bani Adam: the 13th century Persian poem that shows why humanity needs a global response ...

The Conversation 27 Mar 2020

A 19th drawing of the tomb of the Iranian poet Saadi in Shiraz. Pascal Coste via Wikimedia Commons. Coronavirus is all about human connectivity ... The novel coronavirus defies geography and national borders. There is no escaping it – exactly because humanity is inevitably interdependent ... It reads. ... “No man is an island,” wrote the poet John Donne in 1624 ... ....

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Sarah Ruhl’s Reasons to Keep Writing

Vanity Fair 25 Mar 2020

Every year, ten emerging writers are chosen as the recipients of the Whiting Awards, a $50,000 grant that celebrates early accomplishment and promise ... Hello. John Donne once said that love “makes one little room an everywhere.” And so it’s my hope that the love I have for these writers we’re celebrating tonight makes this screen an everywhere ... ....

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Coronavirus shows why Ronald Reagan was wrong about 'big government'

The National 24 Mar 2020

Combating coronavirus. Nick March. coronavirus dark cloud could have a silver lining. Gavin Esler. coronavirus offers a stinging rebuke to protectionists. Rashmee Roshan Lall ... Big government is back – and how ... MH17 ... Today, if we act as individuals, as “islands entire of ourselves" – to paraphrase the English poet John Donne – we know we will fail....