John Donne (/dʌn/ DUN; 1571 or 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became...
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Sir John Donne (c.1420s – January 1503) was a Welsh courtier, diplomat and soldier, a notable figure of the Yorkist party. In the 1470s, he commissioned...
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John Donne (1573–1631) was a poet. John Donne is also the name of: Sir John Donne (1420s–1503), Welsh courtier and diplomat John Donne the Younger (1604–1662)...
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up donne in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Donne may refer to: Alfred François Donné (1801–1878), French bacteriologist and doctor Daniel Donne (died...
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Doppelgänger (section John Donne)
listed as a North Country term and as obsolete. Izaak Walton claimed that John Donne, the English metaphysical poet, saw his wife's doppelgänger in 1612 in...
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John Donne the Younger (1604–1662) was an English clergyman and writer. John Donne the Younger was the son of the poet John Donne, born about May 1604...
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Costa Book Awards. Her 2022 book Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne won the Baillie Gifford Prize, making her the youngest ever winner of...
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Gawain Poet (section John Prat, John Donne)
commemorate[how?] the daughter of John Hastings, Earl of Pembroke, and two of his clerks, John Prat and John Donne, have been advanced as possible candidates...
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poet John Donne." He is chiefly remembered for his 1638 pamphlet, Virginia Reviewed, a plan to reform the government of the Virginia colony. Donne served...
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[citation needed] co-founder and co-editor (with M. Thomas Hester) of the John Donne Journal, and author of multiple books and articles primarily related to...
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in 1962 he also attended the last lectures of C. S. Lewis on the poet John Donne. Lennox obtained a Master of Arts, a Master of Mathematics and a Doctor...
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (category Poetry by John Donne)
"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a metaphysical poem by John Donne. Written in 1611 or 1612 for his wife Anne before he left on a trip to Continental...
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the poetry of John Donne, and it is widely believed he named the first test of a nuclear weapon "Trinity" in reference to one of Donne's poems, as a tribute...
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Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, a 1624 prose work by English poet John Donne No Man Is an Island (film) 1962 war film No Man Is an Island (album) the...
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co-edition, with Alastair Fowler, of the Poems of John Milton (Longman, 1968; revised 1980; 2nd ed. 2006); John Donne: Life, Mind, and Art (Faber and Faber, 1981;...
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sense, in that he was probably referring to a witticism of John Dryden, who said of John Donne: He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but...
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The John Donne Memorial is a bronze bust of John Donne by Nigel Boonham, installed in the garden to the south of St Paul's Cathedral in London, United...
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director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, possibly inspired by the poetry of John Donne. The test, both planned and directed by Kenneth Bainbridge, was conducted...
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also wrote a number of short biographies including one of his friend John Donne. They have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives. Born at Stafford...
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Cecily Bulstrode (section John Donne)
her reputation with rumours of promiscuity. Other writers, including John Donne, used the event of her death as an opportunity to gain favor with her...
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The Flea (poem) (category Poetry by John Donne)
posthumously in 1633) by John Donne (1572–1631). The exact date of its composition is unknown, but it is probable that Donne wrote this poem in the 1590s...
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literature and drama continued, with writers such as William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, and Francis Bacon contributing to a flourishing literary...
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Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (category Prose works by John Donne)
by the English metaphysical poet and cleric in the Church of England, John Donne, published in 1624. It covers death, rebirth and the early modern concept...
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century London, Conceit is the story of Pegge Donne, the daughter of the metaphysical poet John Donne, a contemporary of Shakespeare. Other fictional...
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Death Be Not Proud (category Poetry by John Donne)
"Death Be Not Proud", is a fourteen-line poem, or sonnet, by English poet John Donne (1572–1631), one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets group...
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The Good-Morrow (category Poetry by John Donne)
"The Good-Morrow" is a poem by John Donne, published in his 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets. Written while Donne was a student at Lincoln's Inn, the...
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Holy Sonnets (category Poetry by John Donne)
nineteen poems by the English poet John Donne (1572–1631). The sonnets were first published in 1633—two years after Donne's death. They are written predominantly...
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Classics): "It is thy will thy image should keep open" Simon Schama's John Donne: 2009 "Honorary CBE notice for Shaw". BBC News. 30 December 2000. Retrieved...
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the metaphysical poet John Donne. It was first printed in 1633, two years after Donne's death. "First edition of John Donne's Poems, 1633". The British...
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Protestantism and was used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne and others. It was one of the Bibles taken to America on the Mayflower...
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