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JOHN DONNE (1572-1631) - Coggle Diagram
JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)
Catholic family but converted to Anglicanism
studied in Oxford, then at the Inns of Court in London
he wrote the love lyrics
Songs and Sonnets
the most famous one:
The Sun Rising
appointed private secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton (official of Elizabeth's government)
dismissed because of his secret marriage with Egerton's niece, the 17-yo Ann More
went on a diplomatic mission with Sir Robert Drury
he wrote the poem
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
to comfort his wife while he was in France (they had 12 children, 5 of which died young or at birth)
other works:
Divine Poems
(1607)
2 anti-catholic pamphlets about his renunciation of Catholicism
Holy Sonnets
(1618 - after his wife's death)
most famous one:
Batter my heart
1615
King James I forced him to become
PRIEST
because of his ability as a preacher
Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral after 6 years
DONNE'S POETRY
the most important representative of
METAPHYSICAL POETRY
Variety of tone and register (cynism, irony, meditation)
Dramatic quality: vivid monologues with a speaking voice
use of WIT and
CONCEITS
(intellectual metaphors)
religious metaphors in love poems
metaphors of physical love in the
Divine Poems
impressive
IMAGERY
world
women (innocent and scandalous)
Death