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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Seguin Gazette 21 Jul 2019

The first known newspaper was the Seguin Texan Mercury, established in September 1853 by William and Middleton Donn and later owned by two attorneys, John Logan and William E ... The Seguin Enterprise was later purchased by Frank Smith and John Jefferson....

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Independent online (SA) 20 Jul 2019

Oh the sea is cold and the sky is grey, Look across the island into the bay, We are all islands till comes the day We cross the burning water, were as much a reference to Robben Island as they were a homage to 17th century poet John Donne’s No man is an island entire of itself; ......

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Hate breeds more hate – that's why we need to stand up to all forms of prejudice

The National 18 Jul 2019

In recent months, the UK has been consumed by a row over claims the Labour Party is a hotbed of antisemitism. The party leadership has been accused of failing to address these ongoing allegations. The Sunday Times has reported that 863 complaints of antisemitism were received against Labour party members and councillors ... As the poet John Donne wrote ... ....

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74 Years Ago Today; Trinity pierces the pre-dawn sky in New Mexico

Democratic Underground 16 Jul 2019

The code name "Trinity" was assigned by Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, inspired by the poetry of John Donne ... There is a poem of John Donne, written just before his death, which I know and love....

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'The most intimidating minute I have ever spent': The first nuclear weapon test was 74 years ago — here's what it was like to watch the 'shocking' explosion

Business Insider 16 Jul 2019

"It would be the ultimate catastrophe ... US Department of Energy ... No one, after all, knew for sure what would happen ... Two, it may be a complete dud ... At 10.00pm local time on July 15 it was winched to the top of a metal tower 800 metres from the ground at a site Oppenheimer had named Trinity, after a poem by 17th century English writer John Donne ... Dr. J ... ....

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Re:Creating Europe review – voices from history echo through Brexit

The Guardian 14 Jul 2019

Their source material ranges from John Donne (“No man is an island”) to Barack Obama (“We are heirs to a struggle for freedom”), supplemented by video footage that embraces everything from a Winston Churchill speech to Jona ......

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The Language of Languishing: One Kurd’s Journey Into Mythopoesis

CounterPunch 12 Jul 2019

In January 1918, President Woodrow Wilson presented his 14-Points to Congress, a statement of principles that became the basis for a negotiated settlement that ended World War I, including the break-up of the defeated Ottoman Empire ... John Donne once wrote that no man is an island, but what did he know? His bells were always tolling over something ... ....

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Millionaire buys private island, spends one night there and now wants to sell it

Yahoo Daily News 05 Jul 2019

The poet John Donne wrote that no man is an island — “every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.’’ But when the continent is a mile away, it is not easy being the man who owns the island ... But for some owners, privacy is paramount, said John Campbell, a real estate ......

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Idles reveal which past Glastonbury performance inspired 'Danny Nedelko'

NME 28 Jun 2019

While making their own Glastonbury debut, Idles singer Joe Talbot told a packed audience at The Park Stage that the band’s pro-immigration anthem ‘Danny Nedelko’ was written after seeing PJ Harvey read John Donne’s poem ‘No Man Is An Island’ at Glastonbury 2016....

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Tale of Two Worlds: The Real World And The Ivory Tower-- Oberlin College

Forbes 24 Jun 2019

Colleges and universities often have an environment radically at odds with that in the broader community, and should heed John Donne's injunction that no man (college) is an island onto itself. Oberlin College is learning that lesson the hard way ... ....

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Langston Hughes’s Ardent Public Fan Letter to the Young Nina Simone

Brainpickings 24 Jun 2019

“She is strange. So are the plays of Brendan Behan, Jean Genet, LeRoi Jones, and Bertholt Brecht. She is far-out, and at the same time common. So are raw eggs in Worcestershire and The Connection.” ... music ... Included in Nadine Cohodas’s biography Princess Noire ... Hughes writes.. She is strange ... She is different ... Francis, and John Donne ... ....

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Letter: Cherish memory of each

The Virginian-Pilot 23 Jun 2019

As I was writing a donation to the fund for the Virginia Beach tragedy, John Donne’s “No Man is an Island” came to mind. Donne wrote that we are each diminished by every person’s death ... ....

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Language wars: Sixteen of the greatest linguistic spats of all time

Taipei Times 23 Jun 2019

Passionate feelings about what’s right and wrong extend from the use of “disinterested” to what gay people are allowed to call themselves ... APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE ... The OED tells us that the use of “disinterested” to mean not interested or unconcerned has been around since at least the 17th century, used by no less a stylist than the poet John Donne....