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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'1917': How an Ambitious Narrative Changed the Approach to Filmmaking

The Hollywood Reporter 02 Feb 2020

No one is an island, and nowhere does that ring truer than in the craft of filmmaking. Every crewmember must be, in the words of John Donne, "a piece of the continent, a part of the main" — because making a movie is the ultimate trust exercise ... on 2005's Jarhead, 2012's Skyfall and, most recently, 1917 ... What a life! ... ....

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Shayne Looper: Grief and hope in the face of Kobe’s death

Fayetteville Observer 31 Jan 2020

Friday. Jan 31, 2020 at 9.18 AM Jan 31, 2020 at 9.18 AM ... 26. At several points in Shaq’s monologue, he was forced to pause, overcome with emotion. Shaq’s grief is understandable ... His death, as John Donne put it, diminishes us all. We understand, with Donne, that when the bell tolled for Kobe, it tolled for us too ... The pain of loss was real ... ....

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THE THING gets a semi-remake based on the original story

The Beat 29 Jan 2020

Universal Pictures and Blumhouse have announced a co-production alliance to bring the original John W ... Don’t recognize the title? Maybe you know it as John Carpenter’s The Thing ... Frozen Hell, by John W ... The book managed to make it into the light of day thanks to a Kickstarter campaign created by John Betancourt....

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Blumhouse Is Tackling A Remake Of The Thing

Cinema Blend 28 Jan 2020

As many of you may already know, the movie was inspired by the 1938 novella by John Campbell Jr ... But now a new version of The Thing is on the way that, as Alan Donnes put it, “include the very best of RKO's The Thing From Another World, John Carpenter's classic The Thing and both books, Frozen Hell and Who Goes There?....

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Bobby McDonagh: Light a candle for Brexit

The Irish Times 27 Jan 2020

Even though we will be in the middle of a general election campaign, it seems appropriate to mark Brexit Day in some way ... Many in the UK will ring bells of triumph, in part to convince themselves that there is something to celebrate ... Symbol of hope ... It may, however, be worth recalling John Donne’s prophetic wisdom in his poem For Whom the Bell Tolls .....

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Brexit celebrations ‘rub our noses in it’, says Heseltine

The Observer 26 Jan 2020

Union Jack flags will also line Parliament Square and the Mall on Friday and the public will see government buildings in Whitehall lit up in red, white and blue ... A countdown clock will be projected on to it from 10pm ... “At least we are spared the sound of Big Ben being chimed at our discomfort.” Adapting the quote from John Donne the Tory peer added....

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Derek Jarman’s house provides a rare space for queer history. We must save it

The Observer 26 Jan 2020

He also turned this modest dwelling into an artwork in its own right. Words from John Donne’s The Sun Rising cover an external wall, beyond which Jarman created a now world-famous garden where sculptures made from the flotsam and jetsam of the Dungeness shore were given as much prominence as the crocuses, holly, roses and poppies that he planted ... ....

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Lady Macbeth hand sanitiser? It's the culture Christmas gift guide 2019!

The Observer 24 Nov 2019

On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me … a gun pointing at my head ... £44, shop.mr.bingo ... The Peter Hook one is his double ... Let John Donne’s famous lines (including “Europe is the less”) toll for thy every bake instead....

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An uglier reality

Dawn 21 Nov 2019

OCT 31 has come and gone ... It is now a constitutional finality ... Their exertions remind one of Pope John Paul I’s reply to someone who asked him how many people worked in the Vatican. “Oh, only half,” he replied ... “There are too many examples of men,” the poet John Donne wrote in his Meditations (1624), “that have been their own executioners.” ... ....

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DAWNA K. (MCGOWAN) GRECO

The Beaver Times 17 Nov 2019

Greco in 1982; her brother, John "Jack" McGowan; and her companion of 30 years, Donn Sheets in 2018....

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Make the right connect

The Hindu 16 Nov 2019

Networking is a frequently used word in the corporate world. But it’s not about the ‘how’ of networking that I am interested in today, but rather, the ‘who’. In fact, it is not even about networking, but who we connect with ... It is critical not to be guided by titles alone when we connect ... No man is an island, as John Donne succinctly put it....

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PSU to host reading by award-winning poet

The Morning Sun 13 Nov 2019

... to the poetry of John Donne; she writes of the human body, and her poems are rich with the ....

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The intersection of religion and society

Independent Record 02 Nov 2019

This month’s column is a miscellany at the intersection of religion and society, plus a personal poem. Hopefully these things will stimulate your grey matter and enlarge your hearts. Self-esteem and narcissism ... They demand devotion and loyalty ... Maybe your boss is one ... 3) ... Hildegaard and John Donne, Janani Luwum and Sojourner Truth standing with us ... Water....