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  • Published: 24 June 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141396712
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $39.99

Selected Prose




Searing, haunting and timeless prose from one of England's greatest poets

This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also a preacher, and a prose writer of extraordinary power. In it, he explores the metaphysical collision between poetry and religion, suicide and duty, the secular and the spiritual that characterized his times.

Edited with an introduction and notes by Neil Rhodes.

  • Published: 24 June 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141396712
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $39.99

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About the author

John Donne

John Donne was born into a Catholic family in 1572. After a conventional education at Hart Hall, Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn, he took part in the Earl of Essex's expedition to the Azores in 1597. He secretly married Anne More in December 1601, and was imprisoned by her father, Sir George, in the Fleet two months later.

He was ordained priest in January 1615, and proceeded to a Doctorate of Divinity at Cambridge in April of that year. In 1621 he was made Dean of St. Paul's in London, a post which he held until his death in 1631. He is famous for the sermons he preached in his later years as well as for his poems.

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