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John Donne
life
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1591 after studying at Oxford, returned to London to study law
1598 became secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, one of the highest officials in queen Elizabeth’s government
1601 He married Egerton’s niece, 17-year old Ann More,
secretly;
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poetry
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use wit and unusual, intellectual metaphors called ‘conceits’
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works
Satires and love lyrics, Songs and Sonnets (1633).
Divine Poems (1607) and two anti-Catholic pamphlets
which were his public renunciation of the Catholic faith
Holy Sonnets (about 1618): they sometimes praise,
sometimes struggle with God’s transcendent perfection.