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About John Donne
John Donne wrote witty, passionate love poems as a young man and later became an Anglican priest and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral in London, one of the most famous preachers of his day.
He is the leading figure of the metaphysical poets, known for bold comparisons and arguments in verse. His best-known prose comes from the meditations he wrote while seriously ill in 1623.
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- “Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.”Holy Sonnet 10, 1633
- “Busy old fool, unruly sun, why dost thou thus, through windows, and through curtains call on us?”The Sun Rising, 1633