Comprehensive information about poet John Donne including poetry, biographical information, quotes, literary works, and more. John Donne (1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet, satirist, lawyer and preacher/cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the founding figure of the so-called metaphysical poetry movement. This educational John Donne resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.
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When my grave is broke up again / Some second guest to entertain. Go to Quote / Comment
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. Go to Quote / Comment
Sweare by thy selfe, that at my death thy Sonne Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore;... Go to Quote / Comment
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. Go to Quote / Comment
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right Go to Quote / Comment