But he is also a poet of the spiritual journey. His religious poems speak of shame, fear and self-concious complexity and doubt, but his sermons can soar into a word-music seldom equalled, or can condense theology into epigrams as witty as those which date from his youthful lusts.
He fascinates because he is a man battered by sex - and by God. David Edwards has written an extremely readable book which ranges over all Donne's poetry and prose, and relates the literature to what is known or probable about his life.
He takes twentieth-century research and criticism into careful account but aims to provide more than a detailed examination of a limited part of the subject.
He is not sentimental about Donne's faults and limitations, and he does not try to sound superior to either the poet or the preacher. Her grief-stricken husband would later write the 17 th Holy Sonnet with this event in mind. Donne did not return to England until In he became vicar of St. He died on March 31, having never published a poem in his lifetime but having left a body of work fiercely engaged with the emotional and intellectual conflicts of his age. His numerous illnesses, financial strain, and the deaths of his friends all contributed to the development of a more somber and pious tone in his later poems.
This poem treats the death of the girl in an extremely morose mood, expanding her death to the Fall of Man and the destruction of the universe. This change may also be observed in the religious works that Donne began writing during the same period.
His early belief in the value of skepticism now gave way to a firm faith in the traditional teachings of the Bible. Having converted to the Anglican Church, Donne focused his literary career on religious literature. He quickly became noted for his deeply moving sermons and religious poems. Towards the end of his life Donne wrote works that challenged death, and the fear that it inspired in many men, on the grounds of his belief that those who die are sent to Heaven to live eternally.
John Donne is considered a master of the conceit, an extended metaphor that combines two vastly unlike ideas into a single idea, often using imagery. One of the most famous of Donne's conceits is found in A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning where he compares two lovers who are separated to the two legs of a compass.
Donne's works are also witty, employing paradoxes, puns, and subtle yet remarkable analogies. His pieces are often ironic and cynical, especially regarding love and human motives. Common subjects of Donne's poems are love especially in his early life , death especially after his wife's death , and religion. John Donne's poetry represented a shift from classical forms to more personal poetry. John Donne was famous for his metaphysical poetry in the 17th century.
His work suggests a healthy appetite for life and its pleasures, while also expressing deep emotion. He was revived by Romantic poets such as Coleridge and Browning, though his more recent revival in the early twentieth century by poets such as T. Eliot tended to portray him as an anti-Romantic.
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