John Donne Achievements, Author Biography, Trivia, and Movies

John Donne was an English poet, satirist, lawyer and priest. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, 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...
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quick facts

Birthdate:	January 22, 1572
Birthplace:	London
Date of death:	March 31, 1631
Education:	University of Cambridge
Religion:	Anglicanism

Written works by John Donne

Ignatius his conclave
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Donne's sermons
John Donne

Title	Published
Ignatius his conclave
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	1633
Donne's sermons
John Donne
Paradozes and problems, with two characters and an Essay of valour
The Poems of John Donne
Works, with a memoir of his life
No man is an island
A defence of women for their inconstancy & their paintings
We lie down in hope
Sermons
first and Second Anniversaries. -
satires, epigrams and verse letters
works of John Donne
XXVI sermons
Flea
light of glory
anatomy of the world
Essayes in Divinity
X sermons preached by that late learned and rev. divine John Donne
Divine Poems Ed Gardner 2/E
prayers of John Donne
Divine poems, devotions, prayers
Fifty sermons
Essays in divinity
Some poems and a devotion of John Donne
Pseudo-martyr
love poems of John Donne
Poesía sacra
Poetical works
Zwar ist auch Dichtung Sünde
courtier's library
Poems and prose
Songs and sonets
Suicide
Stikhi
Poems with elegies on the author's death
An anatomie of the world
Five sermons vpon speciall occasions
Letters to severall persons of honour
Mud walls
Poems by J.D
One equall light
holy sonnets of John Donne
Selected Letters
Poems, 1633
Selected poetry
Erotische Elegien, Englisch und Deutsch
day
Poetry & prose
Prayers
Songs and sonnets of John Donne
The Sermons of John Donne
Garland for John Donne 1631-1931
Liebeslieder
Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels
Going to bed and other poems
POEMS V 2
Juvenilia
10 sermons preached by that late learned and rev. divine John Donne, doctor in divinity, once dean of the cathedral church of Saint Paul's
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Donne
Donne's Prebend sermons
Paradoxes and problemes by Iohn Donne, with two characters and an essay on valour, now for thefirst time reprinted from the editions of 1633 and 1652 with one additional probleme
selection of his poetry
sermon upon the ninth verse of the thirty-eighth Psalm
showing forth of Christ
anniversaries
Biathanatos
Major works
Six poems from the Songs and sonnets of John Donne
Essayes in Divinity
Poetry and prose of John Donne
epithalamions, anniversaries, and epicedes
Poems
POEMS V1
variorum edition of the poetry of John Donne
sermon vpon the VIII verse of the I chapter of the Acts of the Apostles
Poems of love
essential Donne
The complete English poems
An anatomy of the world
The complete English poems [of] John Donne
The complete poems of John Donne
Complete poetry and selected prose
The complete poetry and selected prose of John Donne
The complete poetry of John Donne
The elegies, and The songs and sonnets
The First Anniuersarie
The First Anniversarie
John Donne and the theology of language
John Donne, poetry and prose
John Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Plot sermon
John Donne's marriage letters in The Folger Shakespeare Library
Juvenilia
Paradoxes and problems
Poems
Poems on several occasions
The poetical works of Dr. John Donne

John Donne Image Gallery

A few months before his death, Donne commissioned this portrait of himself as he expected to appear ...	A portrait of Donne as a young man, c. 1595. Artist unknown. In the collection of the National Portr...
Part of the house where John Donne lived in Pyrford.

John Donne quotes

As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.
- John Donne
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
- John Donne
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
- John Donne
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
- John Donne
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
- John Donne

People who influenced John Donne

William Shakespeare

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John Pory

John Pory was an English government administrator, traveller, and author of the Jacobean and Caroline eras; he is widely considered to have been the first news correspondent in English-language journalism. Pory was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; he earned his Bachelors degree...
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Frequently Asked Questions

Q:
Where was John Donne born?
A:
John Donne was born in London.
Q:
Which popular book titles have been composed by author, John Donne?
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Popular books include -
- Ignatius his conclave
- Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Q:
Who is acknowledged for having an influence on John Donne?
A:
William Shakespeare and John Pory inspired John Donne.
Q:
What religion did John Donne practice?
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John Donne was a member of the Anglicanism religious denomination.
Q:
What was John Donne's occupation?
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John Donne was an accomplished poet, priest, lawyer and mountaineering.
Q:
What is a famous quote by John Donne?
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Famous quotations include: "Perchance, he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him..."