John Donne (1572-1631) was perhaps the greatest of England’s metaphysical poets, a group of writers concerned with exploring the more rational side of the emotional state. Donne’s common output included love poems, sermons and elegies, sonnets, and songs. Some of Donne’s most well known collected works are two volumes of poems and 160 sermons. Raised a Roman Catholic in Elizabethan England, Donne became ordained in 1615. Donne was also dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
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