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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ROBERTS: It all started with kindergarten

The Lufkin News 14 Oct 2018

It started with kindergarten graduation. However cute this photo op may be, it is symptomatic of a much larger problem in our society ... I applaud the idea of giving our kids a healthy sense of identity, confidence and purpose ... This breeds a false self-confidence and self-identity apart from a true community ... Fun fact ... It’s a give and take ... John Donne (1572-1631), an English poet and cleric, penned that phrase almost 400 years ago ... Dr ... .......

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CenterStage to present 'Wit' at Cumberland

Lebanon Democrat 12 Oct 2018

Director Mitchell Vantrease said the theatre is a second facility on campus, and they wanted to use the space for the show. “This is in the basement of Phillips Dining Hall in the Mitchell Student Center,” he said. “It seats about 40 people.” ... The play won a Pulitzer prize in 1999 ... In the play, Vivian reflects on her life using wit in the poetry of John Donne, as well as specific points of the English language....

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Centerstage to present 'Wit' at Cumberland University

Lebanon Democrat 11 Oct 2018

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Gary Welton: Nature is not our mother

Journal Tribune 11 Oct 2018

News stories from around the country focus on hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, ice storms, tornadoes, droughts, and other natural disasters. It seems that we live at the mercy of Mother Nature. We do not control our lives; Mother Nature instead controls us.G. K ... As John Donne, in “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions” writes, “It is a half atheism to murmur against Nature, who is God’s immediate commissioner.” ... Dr. Gary L ... ....

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Swansea killing victim's DNA 'found on accused's trainer'

BBC News 08 Oct 2018

The traces on Jonathan Donne's shoes may have come from the blood or skin of John Williams, forensic scientist Kim Edwards ......

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Corona mosque opens its doors at annual event

Daily Bulletin 08 Oct 2018

Mosque tours, lectures and the chance to learn about the Islamic faith. That was on the schedule Sunday afternoon, Oct. 7, at the annual Open Mosque Day in Corona. Visitors who came to the Islamic Society of Corona-Norco�also saw an exhibit and enjoyed refreshments. Related Articles. Professing faith ... How the King James Version of the Bible came to be Professing Faith. English poet and parson John Donne prepared for his final message ... Sound....

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Donna Rock Lewis

Ogden Standard-Examiner 07 Oct 2018

At Weber State College, John Walker Lewis was explaining to a friend that he didn't need to be set up to date her cousin ... The friend responded, "but John^that's my cousin!" John soon became the love of Donn's life. After marriage in the Salt Lake Temple, attending BYU, and working in Ogden, John's work took the family to Illinois, for years until 1978, when they moved to Brigham City to work and retire....

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Professing faith: A political drama in ancient Rome that resonates today

Daily Bulletin 05 Oct 2018

Arnold Toynbee once lamented that those who do not learn their history are condemned to repeat it. Many modern historians, including this writer, are more inclined to say that we are condemned to repeat it regardless of how much we know about the past. The Roman Revolution of 509 provides an interesting example ... Perhaps this sounds familiar ... English poet and parson John Donne prepared for his final message Professing Faith ... ....

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Editorial: Killings

Sun Star 04 Oct 2018

PEOPLE don’t normally tarry upon hearing reports of killings, after all these are normal occurrences even in a supposedly civilized setting ... The number of victims thus grabs our attention ... But let us consider context ... Killings are worrisome occurrences for any peace-loving member of society, more so when they are attention grabbers and therefore invite the question of, “Who’s next?” On this, John Donne’s admonition is relevant again.....

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What’s new on the plateau

The Macon County News 04 Oct 2018

PatrickTaylor. Patrick Taylor Highlands Mayor. Recent feedback makes me think some folks view the Highlands Plateau as a sovereign nation where citizens control everything. On the other hand, current situations remind me that is not the case ... Small trucks would then make deliveries to Highlands ... The problem is that it is not our decision to make ... To paraphrase John Donne, no community is an island, no community stands alone. ....

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First You Write a Sentence by Joe Moran review – how good writing makes sense ...

The Guardian 03 Oct 2018

Moran shares Flaubert’s values. His book recommends the pleasures of the well-made sentence, to writers and readers ... He is celebrating the prose of John Donne’s sermons, which seems to feel its way forward experimentally, improvising analogies and snatching at allusions as it goes ... You can admire Donne’s sonorous amplifications, and also relish the mournful irony of Johnson’s style, or the witty patterns of Gibbon’s elaborate periods....

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At 80, I’m on the last lap of life’s circuit and I don’t want to ...

The Guardian 03 Oct 2018

A generation that commodified the most intimate of life’s activities, a generation whose brick-wealth has so skewed the housing market that our grandchildren will never have a secure nest; a generation that voted, in a fit of faux-nostalgia, to ignore John Donne’s cautions about islands and continents; a generation, finally, which in its appetite ......

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