Author: John Donne
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-06-02
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9781514194539
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Songs and Sonnets" from John Donne. English poet, satirist, lawyer and a cleric in the Church of England (1572-1631).
Author: John Donne
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780674032477
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There may be no finer edition of Donne's Songs and Sonets than Redpath's annotated volume. Out of print for a decade, it is reprinted here in its second, revised edition. The book's twofold origin is evident on every page of commentary: it arises partly from a life of scholarship and partly from Redpath's experiences as a teacher.
Author: John Donne
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-01-05
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9781542375320
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Songs and Sonnets John Donne John Donne: 22 January 1573 - 31 March 1631, was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques. His early career was marked by poetry that bore immense knowledge of English society and he met that knowledge with sharp criticism. Another important theme in Donne's poetry is the idea of true religion, something that he spent much time considering and about which he often theorized. He wrote secular poems as well as erotic and love poems. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits.