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John Donne   /dʒɑn dən/   Listen
John Donne

noun
1.
English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631).  Synonym: Donne.






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"John Donne" Quotes from Famous Books



... world. He was one of the handsomest Englishmen of his time." His beauty overstressed somewhat his naturally romantic disposition; his early poems are a blend of delight in the splendor of actuality and disillusion in a loveliness that dies. The shadow of John Donne lies ...
— Modern British Poetry • Various

... patterns are recognizable, yet the whole is felt to be musically and appropriately rhythmic. In the next excerpt, however (from John Donne), and in many passages in the Authorized Version of the Psalms, of Job, of the Prophets, there is a visible balance of phrases and of clauses, a long undulating swing which one perceives at once, though only half consciously, and which approaches, if it does not actually possess, the ...
— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum



Words linked to "John Donne" :   clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend, poet



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