Death mark of the poet John Donne, engraved by Martin Droeshout, London 1632. (Photo by Bettmann / Getty) During the 16th century, the English were unusually spirited in their destruction of ...

Read: Passion and paradox in John Donne’s ‘Batter My Heart, Three-Person’d God’ But overpraise, or praise with reverb, is very Elizabethan and very, very John Donne, as Rundell shows us.

John Donne (A review of Hugh l'Anson Fausset's John Donne: A Study in Discord.) The eighteenth century, with its regard for symmetry and definition, ...

Ms. Rundell is the author, most recently, of “Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne,” from which this essay has been adapted. The power of John Donne’s words nearly killed a man.

Donne’s poetry does not fall neatly into its lines, couplets and stanzas (Getty) I n 1633, a bookseller based in a churchyard on Fleet Street issued a long-awaited collection of poetry.

John Donne's reputation has had its ups and downs. Today, we think of him as the leading "metaphysical" poet - and the description seems neutral.

Finally a biography of John Donne that captures his eccentricities, his contradictions, his fabulous twists and turns, his trickiness, and—as one critic has put it—his thinking “awry and squint.” ...

John Donne’s reply to Marlowe, perhaps written to amuse fellow residents at the Inns of Court, where he was once Master of the Revels, also reads a bit like satire. “Come live with me, and be ...

Isaac Donne’s portrait of John Donne, detail, late 17th century copy of a 1616 work. National Portrait Gallery via Wikimedia Commons Meanwhile, having whetted their appetites on “Death Be Not Proud,” ...

John Donne and the Power of Poetry. Appreciating the unique beauty and power of poetry, one glorious English poem at a time. Isaac Oliver (1556-1617), “John Donne,” National Portrait Gallery, ...