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Title: The Poems of John Donne [2 vols.] Volume I Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts Author: John Donne Editor: Herbert J. C. Grierson Release Date: April 12, 2015 [EBook #48688] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE POEMS OF JOHN DONNE [2 *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Lesley Halamek, Stephen Rowland and the Online ...
Jul 24, 2017 · Ash-Wednesday is the great modernist religious poem in English. 10. Philip Larkin, ‘ Church Going ’. A meditation on the role of the church in a secular age, written by a poet who described himself as an ‘Anglican agnostic’, ‘Church Going’ is one of Larkin’s most popular poems from The Less Deceived.
Donne may well have composed them at intervals and in unlike situations over some 20 years of his poetic career. Some of them may even have overlapped with his best-known religious poems, which are likely to have been written about 1609, before he took holy orders. Poems so vividly individuated invite attention to the circumstances that shaped ...
John Donne’s religious background bears on the poem’s interpretation. After all, the poem is excerpted from one of his most famous religious writings, “Meditation 17.”. While the excerpted poem, taken on its own, contemplates human interconnectedness and mortality, the full Meditation relates these things to the concept of affliction ...
Aug 16, 2022 · The Unlovable, Irresistible John Donne. The Elizabethan poet was a mystic in bed and a mystic in the pulpit. By James Parker. Illustration by Paul Spella. Source: Bettmann / Getty; Heritage Images ...
Nov 6, 2018 · For God to make man in His image is a great gift and privilege; but that God should become man to save sinful men is, for Donne, extraordinary beyond all imagining. Sonnet XVI FATHER, part of his double interest Unto thy kingdome, thy Sonne gives to mee, His joynture in the knottie Trinitie Hee keepes, and gives to me his deaths conquest.
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"The Relic" is one of John Donne's passionate love songs—and also, oddly, a jab at the Catholic practice of venerating saints' bodies. Imagining a day some years down the line when someone will dig up his grave and find his bones wearing a bracelet of his lover's "bright hair," the poem's speaker sighs that someone will probably try to pass these remains off as the relics of saints.
