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  • Published: 29 November 1991
  • ISBN: 9781857150056
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 569
  • RRP: $32.99

The Complete English Poems





The complete collection of Donne's poems, including his famous Holy Sonnets, 'The Flea' and 'The Sun Rising'

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.

  • Published: 29 November 1991
  • ISBN: 9781857150056
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 569
  • RRP: $32.99

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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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