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John Donne

NOUN
  1. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631)

How To Use John Donne In A Sentence

  • `Mrs Jackson tells me that you are quite a calligrapher these days -- a professional -- working on John Donne for the Americans. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • The lengthy trumpet solo near the end, which the program notes advise is an orchestrated soliloquy from the opera on a John Donne poem, was only the most prominent example. Music review: Adams's 'Doctor Atomic' by BSO at Strathmore
  • Encouraged by his mother and her great friend, John Donne, he accepted ordination as a deacon.
  • What I've been trying to decipher is whether John Donne is actually buried in St. Paul's Cathedral or not, in London. Librarian Kee Malesky Considers 'All Facts' For NPR
  • The John Donne quote is from the poem “A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day”: “The general balm th’ hydroptic earth hath drunk, / Whither, as to the bed’s-feet, life is shrunk.” After the Diagnosis
  • John Donne is among many who have also made this significant observation.
  • Dimitrova translated a selection of John Donne poems in 1999.
  • Another of Brodsky's sources of inspiration is English poetry from the metaphysicist John Donne to W.H. Auden, he who wanted to be a lesser, atlantic Goethe. Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 - Press Release
  • While Nietzsche, who suffered from undiagnosed chronic ailments, called his pain ‘dog,’ John Donne parlayed his illness, most likely typhus, into a spiritual journey.
  • The young John Donne and Parolles in All's Well that Ends Well speak of that particularly valued and disvalued condition in almost the same ironical terms. LITERARY PARADOX
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