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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San Jose State University President Mary Papazian: SJSU has an edge as Silicon Valley talent pipeline

East Bay Times 17 Aug 2018

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Barcelona remembers terrorist victims a year ago

Xinhua 17 Aug 2018

BARCELONA, Aug ... 17, 2017 ... Journalist Gemma Nierga read a speech in which she highlighted the work of the emergency services a year ago, while a fragment of John Donne's poem "No Man is an Island" was read in eight languages, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, French, English, German, Italian and Dutch, to reflect the mother tongues of the victims ... ....

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Looking at the miracles of God’s creation

South East Sun 17 Aug 2018

On Sunday night, Aug ... This journey will be the fastest ever, traveling at a record 430,000 miles per hour ... and traveling through space at about 67,000 m.p.h ... John Donne said, “There is nothing that God hath established in the constant course of Nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a miracle…if it were done but once.” ... Perhaps songwriter John Peterson said it best, “It took a miracle to put the stars in place; ... ....

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Spanish King Taunted by Catalan Separatists at Ceremony for Terror Attack Victims in Barcelona

Time Magazine 17 Aug 2018

Divisive Figure ... Small groups against and in favor of his presence in Barcelona congregated ahead of the events and there were isolated boos as well as calls of “Long live the King.” Young people from different religious backgrounds read the poem “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by John Donne and schoolchildren sang Imagine by John Lennon and “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen ... Compromise Crown ... ....

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Don’t forget all the historical women who held up oppression

New Statesman 17 Aug 2018

When we seek only those who inspire, when we shape historical lives into a “hero’s journey”, we miss the multifarious nature of life itself. " data-adaptive-image-768-img=" " data-adaptive-image-1024-img=" " data-adaptive-image-max-img=" "> On Tuesday 21 July 1908, a special meeting took place at Westminster Palace Hotel, London ... As the Countess of Jersey argued ... Professor Elizabeth C ... As John Donne almost said....

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Pennsylvania 2017 college grads lead the nation in student debt

Pittsburgh Tribune Review 14 Aug 2018

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Review: With 'Doctor Atomic,' Santa Fe stages a nuclear tale as the opera of our time

The Los Angeles Times 06 Aug 2018

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Olympian Cabral victorious in Kelley Race debut

The Day 05 Aug 2018

Two-time Olympian Donn Cabral of Glastonbury won the John & Jessie Kelley Half-Marathon on Saturday in New London, running through sheets of rain to finish in 1.09.39 ... ....

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SFO’s ‘Doctor Atomic’ is an aural feast

Albuquerque Journal 02 Aug 2018

Peter Sellars’ libretto is comprised of a gathering of scientific documents and the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser, John Donne, Baudelaire and the Bhagavad Gita ... Though his performance was gripping in his singing of John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet, Batter my heart, three-person’d God,” his contorted movements, some on the stage floor, were distracting....

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Indian varsity awards PhD on poet's poetry

Sify 31 Jul 2018

[India], July 31 (ANI). Maharaja Ganga Singh University on Tuesday awarded a PhD on "Cultural Construct of Self ... The thesis is divided into six chapters in which professor Dhawan compares fragments of poems of Abhay Kumar with those of Wordsworth, John Donne, John Keats, Robert Browning, W.B....

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No man is an island

Cadillac News 31 Jul 2018

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Sex and Hotels

Slate 31 Jul 2018

Once published in the online magazine of sex Nerve.com, Geoff Dyer’s glorious essay “Sex and Hotels” has fallen off the internet. Slate is proud to republish the essay, which appears in Dyer’s essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition , in its entirety ... or Ms ... Since the outside world scarcely exists, the bed becomes the world (“This bed thy centre is, these walls thy sphere,” as the great hotelier John Donne put it.) ... ....

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In this ohana, we are in it together

West Hawaii Today 26 Jul 2018

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