John Donne. | Heritage Images/GettyImages Continue reading “Meditation XVII,” and you’ll get to this line, which Ernest Hemingway took as the title of his 1940 novel: “… Any mans death ...

Books and Authors Daryl Gregory and the importance of John Donne's love poems Up next Helen Sedgwick, the York Writer's Festival and up and coming writers from Australia ...

Some of the best poetry in the world is written about complicated love, wrong love, toxic love, but in the spirit of Valentine’s Day I’ve tried to get over my own hang-ups and share that ...

Perhaps more daring is John Donne’s His Mistress Going to Bed. Donne, an English poet who began writing in the 16th century, is considered one of the great love poets.

Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. Donne has expressed, through one central, striking image, the cri de coeur of repentant sinners, not just of King David or St. Augustine but of all of us.

To reread Donne's poems with Mr. Fausset's book at hand is a valuable experience, and only by so doing can his interpretation be justly estimated.

There is a poem of John Donne, written just before his death, which I know and love. From it a quotation: As West and East In all flatt Maps—and I am one—are one, So death doth touch the ...

John Stubbs on the great English poet’s rule-breaking verse Saturday 13 May 2023 10:35 BST 0 Comments Donne’s poetry does not fall neatly into its lines, couplets and stanzas (Getty) ...

The Sun has offered as Poem of the Day two previous works by John Donne (1572–1631): “ I Am a Little World Made Cunningly ” and “ Air and Angels ” — both knotty, complex poems, and both examples of ...

The engraved frontispiece to the 1635 second edition of John Donne’s Poems features a portrait of the artist as an exceedingly young man. Eighteen years old, in loose curls, padded Italian doublet, a ...

British writer Katherine Rundell’s biography on poet John Donne named winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize at a ceremony in London. It argues that Donne is “a writer perhaps as great as ...