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Donne, John
- A seventeenth-century English poet and clergyman. Donne is famous for his intricate metaphors , as in a poem in which he compares two lovers to the two legs of a drawing compass. He also wrote learned and eloquent sermons and meditations. The expressions “ Death, be not proud ,” “ No man is an island ,” and “ for whom the bell tolls ” are drawn from Donne's works.
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Part Joan Didion and part John Donne, Manguso has the rare ability to devastate and illuminate with a single sentence.
From The Daily Beast
Your character in Wit seeks strength in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, especially his Holy Sonnet 10, “Death Be Not Proud.”
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In the closing years of the preceding century, John Donne had traveled in Italy.
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But he had affinities with John Donne and the metaphysical poets, and could be obscure on occasion.
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