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John Donne

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John Donne

John Donne (1572-1631) was aBritish metaphysical poet. He wrotelove poems andsonnets but later in his life becamereligious and wrote manyChristian poems. He was alsoDean ofSt Paul's Cathedral and was the author of many sermons.

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His famous poems include A valediction forbidding mourning, Batter My Heart, The Sun Rising and Good Friday, riding westward.

The book,Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624) hasmeditations andprayers. One of these meditations,Meditation XVII, has the famous phrases "No man is an island" and "...for whom thebell tolls". (The words of the original book, used thephrase "No man is anIland", but the phrase has often been published with modernspelling (of those words).

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v t e Metaphysical poetry (related page:metaphysical poets)
Major poets	John Donne (1572–1631) George Herbert (1593–1633) Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) Robert Southwell (c. 1561–1595) Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649) Thomas Traherne (1636/1637–1674) Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)
Minor poets	Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672) Thomas Carew (1595–1640) George Chapman (c. 1559–1634) John Hall (c. 1627–1656) Edward Herbert (1583–1648) Richard Leigh (1649-1728) Katherine Philips (1632–1664) Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) Edward Taylor (c. 1642–1729)
Critics	Samuel Johnson T. S. Eliot

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