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Saturday, 21 September 2019

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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Nicholas Coleridge's passage to India

The Telegraph India 20 Sep 2019

Come and have dinner on my terrace with my wife.” ... He adds ... Start anew ... fell in love with himself at an early age and has remained faithful ever since.” After interviewing Boycott for the radio, the psychiatrist, Anthony Clare confessed he would have to revise the famous line penned by the Jacobean poet, John Donne, that “no man is an island” ... ....

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English professor’s book sheds new light on poet and preacher John Donne

Public Technologies 19 Sep 2019

Joshua Eckhardt, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of English in VCU's College of Humanities and Sciences, has authored a new book that examines the religious texts and books that surrounded the poems, sermons and inscriptions of poet and preacher John Donne (1572-1631)....

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The odor of order

The Houston Leader 19 Sep 2019

A friend of mine, Joe, entered the U.S. Army ... Take the Beatles – they are always listed as John, Paul, George and Ringo ... We always say, “Matthew, Mark, Luke and John” in that order because the New Testament lists them that way, but there is some question if their writings are in chronological order ... In 1611 John Donne wrote a similar line ... A good idea....

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Dennis Anderson: True to form, sensing that vivid autumnal vibe

Dothan Eagle 18 Sep 2019

MINNEAPOLIS — In Minnesota’s “First Report of the State Zoologist,” issued in 1892, Philo Hatch said that while ruffed grouse were breeding throughout Minnesota, the bird was most abundant in its northern forests ... Upbeat, I sauntered ahead ... Albert Camus wrote, “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” And, similarly, John Donne ... ——— ... ....

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Wit In The Face of Cancer Still Resonates

Houston Press 06 Sep 2019

She’s a specialist in John Donne after all, the poet that takes metaphysical poetry about mortality and makes it even more complicated ... However, not her sense of self, intellect, her vaulted teaching position or even Donne, who she quotes voluminously in the show, can help her overcome the inevitable....

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Darkness Visible

Vanity Fair 06 Sep 2019

Through the course of literature and art the theme of depression has run like a durable thread of woe—from Hamlet’s soliloquy to the verses of Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins, from John Donne and Milton to Hawthorne and Poe, Camus and Conrad and Virginia Woolf....

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Political powerhouse Dr. Isabel Baker leaves legacy of education and caring

The City Sentinel 05 Sep 2019

In addition to her surviving brother Bill Keith and his wife Vivian, she leaves her son Tim Keith and his wife Diana, Donn and his wife Sharon, and Bill John and his wife Sherry. Tim Keith and Donn are both attorneys and Bill John Baker is the former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation....

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Best Bets This Weekend: Wit, Ask Me Another, Supernatural Death Corps

Houston Press 05 Sep 2019

Is there one more lesson for this sarcastic patient with a quick wit and love of John Donne's sonnets? Will she recognize the value of human kindness before it's too late? You'll have to see for yourself, but word on the street is that audience members will definitely leave with a deeper appreciation for the loved ones in their orbit....

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UNLV’s Lied Library lands $5M endowment for rare books collection

Las Vegas Review-Journal 04 Sep 2019

Rogers will also donate her personal collection of more than 1,300 books, which includes a first edition of the collected poems of John Donne, later annotated by George Eliot, as well as other first editions of Victorian works and books by John Steinbeck. Rogers’ collection is valued at $1 million ... Follow @aleksappleton on Twitter. ....

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Politics requires a science degree? Why Boris Johnson's chief strategist is wrong about arts education

The Art Newspaper 02 Sep 2019

The first thing to say is that Cummings has a quick wit—both in the sense of witty, but also in the way that John Donne and the Metaphysical poets would have meant, in that a strong line of logic runs through his writing ... • John McTernan is a strategist for BCW and the former director of political operations for Prime Minister Tony Blair . ....

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Anxiety and depression: why doctors are prescribing gardening rather than drugs

The Conversation 02 Sep 2019

Gardening gives people the chance to reconnect and relax ... Scientists have found that spending two hours a week in nature is linked to better health and well-being ... Findings also seem to suggest that social prescribing schemes can lead to a reduction in the use of NHS services ... John Donne was correct when he said “ no man is an island ” ... ....

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McClellan: Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter cake from an early column

Longview News-Journal 28 Aug 2019

This recipe was given to me by my friend Sharon Bindler, the wife of one of my school buddies from Tyler High School before it was renamed John Tyler High School. Donn will be sure to tell you he is a year younger than I! ... Though Donn and Sharon have been gone from Longview (in Dallas), they still have many friends who know and care about them here....

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Letter to the editor: We need each other

Leavenworth Times 18 Aug 2019

We need each otherBrothers and Sisters, I bet’cha you don’t remember the poem, written before gender consciousness, “No man is an island.” Too dad.John Donne reminds us that it is impossible to live in separation ... ....