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The Complete English Poems
[Hardback - 1991]
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Category: Literature
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Publisher: Everyman's Library Uk | ISBN: 9781857150056 | Pages: 569
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Donne created new forms of lyric, satire, elegiac and religious verse, and his independence of view, compact manner of expression encompassing conflicting moods, impassioned paradox, outbreaks of cynicism and wry humour make his work particularly appealing to the twentieth-century mind. His poetry reflects every stage of his development from the piratical Jack Donne who sailed with Ralegh against the Spaniards and spent riotous nights in the London streets, to the penitent John Donne who became Dean of St Paul s and the most celebrated preacher of his age. C. A. Patrides edition of Donne s English poems is undoubtedly the most complete and scholarly available.

John Donne was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. Under royal patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul s Cathedral in London. He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poet

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