JOHN DONNE

THE GREATEST LOVED POET IN THE ENGLISH

LANGUAGE.
 First poems in 1633 & 1635
Songs, sonnets, and prose
Catholic family Religion
Love Lyrics and erotic poems in 1590s
Satires, songs, and sonnets
 IN 1593, JOHN DONNES BROTHER DIED

John questioned his Catholic faith

His best writing was inspired by religin
Anti-Catholic polemic Pseudo-Martyr (1610)
 THE BEST DONNES BEST POEMS EVERYONE
SHOULD READ:

The Flea Batter my heart, three-persond

The Good Morrow God

Death, be not proud Go and catch a falling star

The Canonization To his mistress Going to Bed

A valediction: Forbidding The Ecstasy

Mourning
The Sun Rising
 DEATH, BE NOT PROUD.
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;
For those whom thou thinkst thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and souls delivery.
Thouart slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppyor charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swellst thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.