Many poems he deemed too scandalous; others seemingly too personal. He had died in 1631, aged 59, a poet of vehement love and troubled faith. The poems are no less astonishing now than they were then.

Having recently discovered Donne’s sermon against the abomination of torture, from Easter 1625, I went back to one of his poems, “Love’s Exchange.” The exact date of this work is uncertain, though ...

This sonnet from English poet John Donne (1571–1631) isn’t a conventional love poem but rather a love poem dedicated to God. On the surface, the narrator struggles with his faith and beseeches ...

The world's SEXIEST poet: John Donne eloped with a girl of 16 and had 12 children — but still wrote some of the finest love poems in the English language writes ROGER LEWIS ...

Bookshelf ‘Super-Infinite’ Review: John Donne, Love Poet Divine His verse shockingly linked the sacred and the sensual—and his prose strove to make sense of life and death.

And among his contemporaries, nobody oscillated more madly than John Donne. ... Donne’s love poetry is extreme: Bodies melt, souls commingle, genders elide, death is an atom away.

He had died in 1631, aged 59, a poet of vehement love and troubled faith. In 1633, ... an especially apt location for John Donne's poems to appear. It was a collection, ...