JOHN DONNE (1572-1631) was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England.  He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets, a loosely associated group that also includes George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, and John Cleveland.

Donne's works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons.  His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries.  Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations.  These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques.  is early career was marked by poetry that bore immense knowledge of English society and he met that knowledge with sharp criticism.  Another important theme in Donne's poetry is the idea of true religion, something that he spent much time considering and about which he often theorized.  He wrote secular poems as well as erotic and love poems.  He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits.


The following books are in ePUB for PDF format as indicated:

* Collected Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2012).  Edited by Ilona Bell. -- ePUB

* Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics, 1996). Edited by A.J. Smith. -- ePUB

* Complete Poems (Longman, 2010). Edited by Robin Robbins. -- ePUB + PDF

* Complete Poetical Works (Delphi Classics, 2012) -- ePUB

* Complete Poetry & Selected Prose (Modern Library, 2001). Edited by Charles Coffin. -- ePUB

* Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions /Death's Duel (Michigan UP, 1959) -- PDF

* Essays in Divinity (Tupling, 1855). Edited by Augustus Jessopp. -- PDF

* Holy Sonnets [Variorum Edition] (Indiana UP, 2005) -- PDF

* Letters to Severall Persons of Honour (Sturgis & Walton, 1910) -- PDF

* Poems and Prose (Everymans Library, 1995) -- ePUB

* Selected Prose (Penguin Classics, 2015). Edited by Neil Rhodes. -- ePUB

* Sermons: Selected Passages (Oxford UP, 1919) -- PDF

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