Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

Finally a biography of John Donne that captures his eccentricities ... that she offers corrections to the hackneyed interpretations of the split between Donne’s love poetry and his spiritual poetry as ...

Both poets explore love as a transformative and omnipotent force, delving into its complexities and transcendence. Donne ...

Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deny'st me is; It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea, our two bloods mingled be; Thou knowest that this cannot ...

Metaphysical thinking characterizes Donne's poetry as metaphysics is to define an abstract idea through empirical entities, and, as Eliot notes, Donne is good at turning a thought into an experience ...

A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead. Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pampered, swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do. Oh stay, three lives in one flea ...