author: john donne

John Donne Holy Sonnets: with an introduction by John Daniel Thieme

The nineteen poems that comprise John Donne's Holy Sonnets are works of anxiety and spiritual crisis.

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne

... Charles I in the Beginning of Lent 1630/1 by Dr John Donne Late Dean ofSt Paul's, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (Boston, 1973) Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, ed. Anthony Raspa (Oxford, 1987) Essayes in Divinity, ed. Anthony Raspa (Montreal ...

John Donne: Collected Poetry

Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age.

Three Centuries of English Literature. 1625-1900

... Holy Sonnet 14 : Explain the striking paradoxes of 5 10 15 20 20. MEDITATION ... translation , and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for ... Holy Sonnet 6 : Explain how the speaker " distrib- utes ' himself after death ...

The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne: The Divine Poems

... poetry from his own time to the 20th century. Alvarez defines Donne as “the first ... notes that Donne's religious poems exhibit “a dialectic within himself ... elements of experience, one in each hand, the trivial and the tremendous ...

John Donne: The Major Works

The Major Works John Donne John Carey. The Flea ° 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 know'st ...

The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 7, Part 1: The Holy Sonnets

... DD . II ( first group ) U. 172 Holy Sonnet . 10 loose ] N ; lose Σ . II Sonne ] Sun H - K M N P 72 ; ~ ( var : sun ) O. 12 stole ] stolen LO ( var : stole ) Q S - U Z AA DD . ANALYSES OF EARLY PRINTED COPIES ( Since the Holy Sonnets HSWilt ...

The Collected Poems of John Donne

John Donne Roy Booth. records one contemporary belief about the spontaneous generation of fleas : ' flease , which females are moste given to , their urin beinge apteste to Ingender thatt litle scipinge Animall ' . Despite modern ...

The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life

... mine age ; let me wither in a spital under sharp , and foul , and infamous diseases , and so recompense the wantonness of my youth , with that loathsomeness in mine age ; yet , if God withdraw not his spiritual blessings , his grace ...

Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels

... mine age in a discomfortable , in an unwholesome , in a penurious prison , and so pay my debts with my bones , and recompence the wastfulnesse of my youth , with the beg- gery of mine age ; Let me wither in a spittle under sharpe , and ...

Selections from the works of ---,DV_.DV_.

... mine age in a dis- comfortable , in an unwholesome , in a penurious prison , and so pay my debts with my bones , and recompense the wastefulness of my youth , with the beggary of mine age ; let me wither in a spital under sharp , and ...

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume VII

... mine age in a discomfortable , in an unwholesome , in a penurious prison , and so pay my debts with my bones , and recompence the wastfulnesse of my youth , with the beg- gery of mine age ; Let me wither in a spittle under sharpe , and ...

One Equall Light: An Anthology of the Writings of John Donne

... Ghost in stead of Scriptures ; But to us , who are weaker , hee hath given both , The holy Ghost in the Scriptures ... smoke , and then all flame ; Zeale without the Holy Ghost , is at first , cloudy ignorance , all smoke ; and after ...

The Works of John Donne: Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631

... mine age ; let me wither in a spital under sharp , and foul , and infamous diseases , and so recompense the wantonness of my youth , with that loathsomeness in mine age ; yet , if God withdraw not his spiritual blessings , his grace ...

The Works

... mine age ; let me wither in a spital under sharp , and foul , and infamous diseases , and so recompense the wantonness of my youth , with that loathsomeness in mine age ; yet , if God withdraw not his spiritual blessings , his grace ...

The Works of John Donne ... With a Memoir of His Life. By [i.e. Edited By] Henry Alford

... mine age ; let me wither in a spital under sharp , and foul , and infamous diseases , and so recompense the wantonness of my youth , with that loathsomeness in mine age ; yet , if God withdraw not his spiritual blessings , his grace ...

Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions

... mine age ; let me wither in a spital under sharp , and foul , and infamous diseases , and so recompense the wantonness of my youth , with that loathsomeness in mine age ; yet , if God withdraw not his spiritual blessings , his grace ...

Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)

... mine age in a discomfortable, in an unwholesome, in a penurious prison, and so pay my debts with my bones, and recompense the wastefulness of my youth with the beggary of mine age; let me wither in a spittle under sharp, and foul, and ...

The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 4.2: The Songs and Sonets: Part 2: Texts, Commentary, Notes, and Glosses

... B16 B23 B32 B40 BD2 C1 C8 020 022 R7 SN4 VA3 ; see , B2 . aswell ] aswell H7 ... bus'nesse B2 B46 PM1 SN4 ; - , HH1 . thee ] then B23 ; - , B31 B32 C8 H4 ... B16 B23 B44 R7 ; ~ . B2 034 ; ~ B7 C5 C9 F15 HH1 HH5a HH5b HH7 LM1 NY1 010 021 ...

The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

John Donne Theodore Redpath. The Flea Mark but this flea , and mark in this How little that which thou deny'st me is ; Me it suck'd first , and now sucks thee , And in this flea our two bloods mingled be ; Confess it , this cannot be ...

Holy Sonnets 1 To 19

Holy Sonnets by John Donne are a series of nineteen poems originally written in 1609-1610 and have been tied to Donne's conversion to Anglicanism.

The Best of John Donne: Featuring a Valediction Forbidding Mourning , Meditation 17 (for Whom the Bell Tolls and No Man Is an Island) , Holy Sonnet 10 (Death Be Not Proud) , Come Live with Me and Be My Love , and Many More!

This work includes the following John Donne poetry: The Bait (Come Live with me and be my Love) The Indifferent The Broken Heart Break of Day [Another by the Same Name] (Break of Day, II) A Hymn to God the Father The Funeral The Relic The ...

John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers

Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers John Donne John E. Booty. 14 our sins away ) .1 Sonnet ... 10 , " Batter my heart , " perhaps the best known of Donne's religious poems . It expresses the frustration of the ...

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

Clara Lander, writing in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, suggests that the typhus may have exacerbated the enteritis Donne had suffered from since childhood.[7] Donne was of the opinion - as were many others of the age - that ...

The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne: The Divine Poems

... meditations in the tradition of the rosary.” This sequence of “seven linked sonnets, touches the life of Christ from the Annunciation to the Ascension,” but also downplays the role that Mary had in Catholic tradition. Kermode (1957, 38) ...

The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 2: The Elegies

... poem , " the curse of the finder " rises for a moment to real so- lemnity . " Points out that " last " appears in B13 , H3 , O21 , and HH1 ( all Group V mss . [ as categorized by Gardner ( 1965b ) ] ) and was accepted by Grierson and by ...

The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life

... joy , and glory , Si nomine suo , non tota die , If they rejoice in their own names , their own wisdom , their own strength , they shall not rejoice all the day , but they shall be benighted with dark sadness , before their days end ...

The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 4.2: The Songs and Sonets: Part 2: Texts, Commentary, Notes, and Glosses

The Songs and Sonets: Part 2: Texts, Commentary, Notes, and Glosses John ... Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Shafer (1978, 39–41) identifies several ... analysis of the manuscript revisions. He notes that this was the fourth poem by ...

Air and Angels: Selected Poems

JOHN DONNE: AIR AND ANGELS: SELECTED POEMS A selection of the finest poems by British poet John Donne. John Donne was, Robert Graves said, a 'Muse poet', a poet who wrote passionately of the Muse.

The Complete Poems of John Donne...

John Donne Alexander Balloch Grosart. THE FLEA.1 MARKE but this flea , and marke in this , How little that which thou deniest me is ; Mee it suckt first , and now sucks thee , And in this flea our two bloods myngled bee : Confesse it ...

Poems of John Donne

John Donne. SONGS AND SONNETS . THE FLEA . MARK but this flea , and mark in this , How little that which thou deniest me is ; It suck'd me first , and now sucks thee , And in this flea our two bloods mingled be . Thou know'st that this ...

Selected Poetry

This collection of Donne's verse includes a wide selection from both his secular and divine poems, including such well-known poems as "Air and Angels," "The Flea," the "Holy Sonnets", and "The Progress of the Soul.

The Greatest Poems of John Donne

With its timeless themes and masterful verse, this collection is sure to leave a lasting impression on all who engage with Donne's poetic genius.

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