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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Music review: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Scotsman 10 Nov 2018

... atmospheric new work, Meditation (after Donne), commissioned by the SCO to mark the centenary of the 1918 Armistice. Taking John Donne’s plea for a shared humanity in his Meditation XVII for inspiration, Suckling beautifully evokes the conflicting emotions that peace brings....

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Music review: Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

Scotsman 10 Nov 2018

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'Those 15 minutes with Ruby Murray were like a confessional in which she told me how much she missed the bright lights of the big theatres... she said with the spotlight on her she felt she was all alone and could sing her heart out'

Belfast Telegraph 07 Nov 2018

One of the mainstays of the Ulster theatre, Sam McCready, has been forced to abandon plans to direct a new play about legendary Belfast singer Ruby Murray ... The play, called Ruby!, is now due to open at the Lyric Theatre in February with a new director, Richard Orr, in the hot seat ... He says ... John Donne (the poet) was right - no man is an island ... " ... ....

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Opinion: Thinking about anti-Semitism

Pocono Record 06 Nov 2018

One included in her note a verse from John Donne."No man is an island entire of itself any man's death diminishes me,because I am involved in mankind.And therefore never send to know for whomthe bell tolls; it tolls for thee."This largeness of spirit .......

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Thinking about anti-semitism

The News Banner 06 Nov 2018

In the days following the murder rampage at the Tree of Life synagogue, I received several expressions of grief from friends who are committed Christians. One included in her note a verse from John Donne.. “No man is an island entire of itself ... Buckley set a standard when he excommunicated anti-Semites and John Birchers from the conservative movement....

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OP-ED: Reflecting on anti-Semitism in aftermath of shooting

Observer-Reporter 06 Nov 2018

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More LGBT candidates surface in D.C. election

Washington Blade 05 Nov 2018

Council chair and D.C. attorney general are gay men who are a married couple ... Incumbent John Tinpe, who holds the ANC 2C01 seat, which is located in the Chinatown area in Ward 2, is being challenged by gay civic activist Michael Shankle ... Ward 1 ... Nick Delle Donne, 2B04 ... John Tinpe, 2C01 ... John Guggenmos, 2F02 (unopposed). John Fanning, 2F04 (unopposed) ... .......

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Left and right are both guilty of anti-Semitism

Tyler Morning Telegraph 05 Nov 2018

In the days following the murder rampage at the Tree of Life synagogue, I received several expressions of grief from friends who are committed Christians. One included in her note a verse from John Donne ... Of course there were episodes ... Buckley set a standard when he excommunicated anti-Semites and John Birchers from the conservative movement ... .......

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CHAREN: Thinking about anti-Semitism

Ogden Standard-Examiner 05 Nov 2018

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Opinion: The right forgets principles, salutes

Lawrence Journal World 05 Nov 2018

In the days following the murder rampage at the Tree of Life synagogue, I received several expressions of grief from friends who are committed Christians. One included in her note a verse from John Donne. ... any man’s death diminishes me, ... Buckley set a standard when he excommunicated anti-Semites and John Birchers from the conservative movement ... ....

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It's not 'us against them'

Norwalk Reflector 04 Nov 2018

Why not? We eat other animals. It varies by culture — around here, we don’t eat dogs or guinea pigs, but people in other countries do. And we do eat cows and pigs and chickens and ducks ... We identify as members of the human race ... The results of the Corso’s raid are not over ... I think of the famous John Donne poem, published in 1624. ... ....

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No man is an island, but this man sells them

RTE 03 Nov 2018

(Photo ... When John Donne wrote, in 1624, that "No man is an island entire of itself; every man/is a piece of the continent, a part of the main", he could have no conception of the "visionaries" yet to come, who in response to the mythical call of sirens on the rock, bought the rock, built 12 villas on it and kicked out the sirens....

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