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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Missoulian 14 Dec 2018

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University of Montana President Bodnar's tweet creates minor Twitter storm

Missoulian 07 Dec 2018

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Nothing, is appealing

The Yadkin Ripple 06 Dec 2018

About 400 years ago, poet John Donne wrote, “No man is an island.” But I think he should have added, “but there are good islands to visit.”. Ocracoke Island off the coast of North Carolina is an excellent example. Quaintness could be the number one reason to go there ... Donne made that notable statement four centuries ago....

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Unknown John Donne manuscript discovered in Suffolk

The Guardian 30 Nov 2018

“I opened the box and came across this astonishing manuscript, opened it up and thought, ‘Hang on, that poem’s by John Donne hang on, that’s also John Donne,’ and quite quickly realised it was a very very special and significant manuscript....

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'Significant' John Donne manuscript could fetch £300k

BBC News 30 Nov 2018

A previously unknown 400-year-old manuscript of works by English poet John Donne has been found in a box in a stately ......

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Two parcels of land re-zoned to commercial

The Portland Sun 30 Nov 2018

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Collmer, Robert G.

Waco Tribune-Herald 28 Nov 2018

Bob's early fascination with John Donne and his poetry predated the national interest in this seventeenth-century English cleric and poet ... Honorary pallbearers include Mark Collmer, Don McLaren, Clement Goode, John Belew and Roger Brooks.In lieu of flowers, the family requests ......

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Flushing alum wins state senate seat

The Flushing View 22 Nov 2018

(Left to right). John Gleason, Frank Polehanki, Dayna Polehanki and Donn Hinds. Photo provided ... Genesee County Clerk John Gleason; former longtime Flushing teacher Donn Hinds; and her father and former Flushing teacher, Frank Polehanki. — B.G. ....

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WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE! Idioms are creative little clusters

Arkansas Online 19 Nov 2018

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CHAREN: Thinking about anti-semitism

Odessa American 14 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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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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