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Donne, John
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Donne, John (1572–1631). Metaphysical poet and churchman. Having been a volunteer on the 1596 Cadiz expedition, he became secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, but marriage to Anne More (1601) led to dismissal and unemployment. He had by then written much of his passionate, witty poetry and begun to reject catholicism. Even as an Anglican, his deep, personal religious struggle continued. He was ordained in 1615. Preferment was then rapid and he became famous for his powerful sermons. Despite uncertain health, he was installed as dean of
St Paul's cathedral (1621).
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Donne: The Reformed Soul.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...biography is further marked by its debts to two modern biographical studies, R. C. Bald's John Donne: A Life (1970) and John Carey's John Donne: Life, Mind and Art (1981). Stubbs relies heavily on Bald's primary research and documentation...
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Donne and the Resources of Kind
Magazine article from: AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Recent Genre Criticism of the Works of John Donne: 'genre is not a cipher with which...perspectives, Heather Dubrow's, 'Donne's Elegies and the Ugly Beauty Tradition...Gender, Genre, and the Idea of John Donne in the Anniversaries'. Dubrow...
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John Donne: Body and Soul.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Ramie Targoff. John Donne: Body and Soul Chicago: The University...The unifying preoccupation of all John Donne's writings, according to Brandeis...PMLA and The Cambridge Companion to John Donne, edited by Aschah Guibbory. It is...
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John Donne and the Art of Adaptation
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; John Donne is often depicted as one who abandoned...environment in which they found themselves. John Donne was one of those who adapted. He was not...Christian. Two strikingly different images of John Donne emerge from his early life and his later...
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Donne's Satyre III.(poet John Donne)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...focuses on Satyre III as a reflection of Donne's religious beliefs, especially with regard to his conversion. (1) Although Donne satirizes various aspects of organized...political and commercial power as well. Donne concludes his satire with the following...
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John Donne's Poetry and Early Modern Visual Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Ann Hollinshed Hurley. John Donne's Poetry and Early Modern Visual Culture...scholars have yet to fully appreciate Donne's participation in and influence on...connections between an early portrait and Donne's poetry of the 1590s to some of Donne...
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John Donne and the Protestant Reformation: New Perspectives.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; John Donne and the Protestant Reformation...thirteen ways of visiting John Donne (1572-1631), his religious...Dort saying "goodnight to John Calvin"?). Furthermore, we are told that one of Donne's respondents at the 1626...
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John Donne's Religious Imagination: Essays in Honor of John T. Shawcross. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...sermons, and tells us that Donne celebrates "the general...Klawitter's tide, " John Donne's Attitude toward the...public," as, say, John Milton does in The Christian...Lost. Two articles on Donne's "public voice" we...
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Donne's Hawkings.(John Donne)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...decade of the seventeenth century, John Donne used letters and journeys to stitch...frustration of his hopes for preferment. Donne and his wife were reduced to dependence...In these difficult circumstances, Donne's correspondence took on a central...
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John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...introductory and concluding chapters. Flynn takes Donne's 1591 portrait as his starting point...emphasizing instead its "purposeful reference to Donne's Catholic and Welsh ancestry" through...concludes with a new reading of two of Donne's letters from 1602, again revealing...
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Donne, John (1572–1631)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
DONNE, JOHN (1572 – 1631) DONNE, JOHN (1572 – 1631), English poet and divine. Donne...sometime between 24 January and 19 June 1572, the son of John Donne, an ironmonger, and Elizabeth, daughter of the epigrammatist...
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Donne, John
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Donne Born: 1572London, EnglandDied: March...1631London, England English poet and priest John Donne—English poet, Anglican (Church...objects made from iron) of Welsh ancestry, John Donne was born in London, England, between...
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Donne, John (1572–1631)
Book article from: The Renaissance
Donne, John (1572 – 1631...essayist, and Anglican priest, Donne was born in London to a well...the daughter of playwright John Heywood and a great niece of Sir Thomas More. Donne was educated by members of...
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John Donne
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Donne John Donne (1572-1631), English metaphysical poet, Anglican divine, and pulpit orator, is ranked with Milton as one of the greatest English poets. He is also a supreme artist in sermons and devotional prose. John Donne's masculine...
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Holy Sonnets of John Donne
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Holy Sonnets of John Donne. Setting of 9 Donne sonnets for high v. and pf. Op.35, by Britten. Comp. 1945 after visit to Ger. concentration camps.
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