John Donne (jan 22, 1590 – mar 31, 1631)

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English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. 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.

Works:
The Flea (1590s)
Death Be Not Proud (1633)
The Sun Rising (1633)
The Dream (1633)
Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed (1633)

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