A Poet of Departure and Father of Metaphysical Poetry: John Donne is a poet of departure from the tradition of Elizabethan era. He began to write about 1592. By the time Elizabethan enthusiasm was nearly exhausted. The age of Donne comprises the last decade of the 16th century and early decades of the 17th. Donne’s … Read more
Donne’s Religious Poetry: John Donne is one of the greatest of English religious poets. No doubt Donne’s religious poetry belongs to the later part of his career, to the period after his ordination, and the gloom, despair and frustration which resulted from the death of his wife, poverty, and ill health. The earliest of his … Read more
Introduction: Donne’s love poems were published in Songs and Sonnets after his death in 1663. The volume contains fifty – five poems in all. His whole reputation as a love poet depends on these poems. His remarkable poems include: The Sunne Rising, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, The Canonization, The Extasie, The Blossome, The Flea, The … Read more