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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How to write the perfect sentence

The Guardian 21 Sep 2018

Every writer, of school age and older, is in the sentences game. The sentence is our writing commons, the shared ground where all writers walk. A poet writes in sentences, and so does the unsung author who came up with “Items trapped in doors cause delays” ... Twitter ... Twitter ... Twitter. John Donne’s sermons are full of sentences that are ever-alert and open to the world ... Donne’s prose, just like his poetry, is a sort of heartfelt thinking ... .......

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The Long History of the Loneliness Epidemic In the West

Alternet 15 Sep 2018

... John Cacioppo argued ... ‘No man is an island,’ wrote the poet John Donne in a similar spirit, in Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624) – nor woman either, for each one formed ‘a piece of the continent, a part of the main.’ If a ‘clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less … any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind’ ....

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Here's How Industrialization and Individualism Led to a New Language of Loneliness

Alternet 13 Sep 2018

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SATERNOW: We should never forget the events of 9/11

The Sharon Herald 08 Sep 2018

“Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” — John Donne’s Meditation XVII (1623) ... 11, 2001 ... I’m sure most of us can remember that infamous day ... Bush ... He is my second favorite novelist, right behind Ernest Hemingway who stole the line from John Donne at the top of this column when he wrote the book “For Whom the Bell Tolls .” ... .......

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Rumble in the jungle: updating Kipling's troubling children's classic

The Guardian 08 Sep 2018

I was not alone ... Twitter ... In the mid 17th century the poet Katherine Philips, a prominent woman of letters in her day, took extracts from several of John Donne’s love poems and made them her own in “To the Excellent Mrs Anne Owen”. Philips passionately addresses a female companion, harnessing Donne’s eroticism while maintaining, by using borrowed imagery, the deniability necessary for propriety. her use of Donne allowed her freedom ... .......

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Germaine Greer ‘On Rape’: 6 Controversial Talking Points From The Writer’s New Book

Huffington Post 07 Sep 2018

Germaine Greer is no stranger to outrage and her latest book, ‘On Rape’, is bound to cause controversy ... In her The Times review, Wolf disclosed that she was raped at the age of seven and explained ... Her sources in the essay as a whole are incredibly varied and mean that academic journals, Bertrand Russell and MailOnline articles all feature – and the last page of the essay includes a quote from a John Donne poem ... ....

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In the #MeToo movement, the need for a balancing act

The Hindu 01 Sep 2018

Some serious feminists I respect (men and women) are running shy of this topic nowadays despite the fact that it is getting a lot of attention in the media, academia, and digitalised hyperspace ... As far back as the 16th century, John Donne made this perception central to his poem, ‘The Sun Rising’, in which a lover addresses the sun in order to prove that the entire world is encompassed in the bed he occupies with his beloved ... .......

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Mystics F Delle Donne questionable with knee bone bruise

This is Money 29 Aug 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) - Washington Mystics star Elena Delle Donne has a bone bruise in her left knee and will be listed as questionable for Game 3 of the WNBA semifinal series against the Atlanta Dream. The Mystics announced Delle Donne's status Wednesday, two days before they host the Dream....

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6 places Brits can feel at home in Moscow

Russia Beyond 29 Aug 2018

It is sometimes said that Moscow is a city that “doesn’t believe in tears” ... 1. Tsaritsyno Park. Legion Media ... Old English Court. Legion Media ... The John Bull Pub. John Bul ... The John Donne on Nikitskiy is the more pleasant, both for its location and its atmosphere, but it is too much of a bar to be a pub. The second, the John Bull, must be considered Moscow’s champion impersonator of the British public house ... Monument to Sherlock Holmes ... ....

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Which teacher influenced you the most in life? | Opinion

NJ dot com 29 Aug 2018

The effect teachers have on their students transcends any given lesson plan. How do you measure that? Tell us who had the greatest impact. Watch video. By Bill Cole ... I was an abject, miserable failure...I motivated nobody ... A third student, killed at Pearl Harbor, tells Fowler that learning John Donne's "No Man is an Island" in his class stayed with him for the rest of his life and stirred in him a vital sense of camaraderie ... Fowlers ... Mr ... ....

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Breaking News

Call & Post 29 Aug 2018

“There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” John 15.13 ... ”John 8.32 ... “There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” John 15.13 ... ”John 8.32 ... President Trump brought that very significant truth to light, echoing John Donne ... ”John 8.32 ... “There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” John 15.13 ... ”John 8.32 ... According to our late great visionary President John F....

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The bell tolls for John McCain: How Hemingway's antifascist hero shaped the man

Yahoo Daily News 26 Aug 2018

John S ... John S ... John S ... Hemingway committed suicide in 1961, the year John F ... Prisoner of war John McCain is administered to in a Hanoi, Vietnam, hospital in 1967 ... John McCain in 2000 ... Hemingway’s book title comes from John Donne’s “Meditation XVII” on the interconnectedness of humankind, suggesting that the Spanish Civil War matters to everyone — not only Spaniards ... John McCain....

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Adams wins in Torrington mayoral race

Scottsbluff StarHerald 22 Aug 2018

In the Republican’s commissioners race, incumbent John Ellis and newcomer Cody Cox took their party’s nominations with 2,314 and 2,014 votes each, followed by Mike Ridenour with 1,020 and Mark LeGrande with 419 votes ... The race for house District 10 was less so, John Eklund winning Goshen County with 103 votes to Donn Edmunds’ 28 ... They were followed by John Holtz with 82, Charlie Hardy with 63, Roque de la Fuente with 45, and A....

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