John Donne

Holy Sonnets

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John Donne



John Donne (1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works, nota…

A Selection of Divine Poems

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John Donne



John Donne was an English Jacobean preacher, sometime lawyer, later in life a Member of Parliament and Royal Chaplain. Marrying for love aga…

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel

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John Donne



Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English theologian and writer John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Lond…

Death Be Not Proud

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John Donne



This week we’re marking the American Memorial Day with eleven readings of a John Donne poem. Memorial Day was conceived as a time to remembe…

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

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John Donne



Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as …

The Dream

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John Donne



LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Dream by John Donne. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 17, 2011.John Donne…

Aspects Of Love - An Anthology

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Various, Translated Byh. De Vere Stacpoole, John Donne, Sappho, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Plato, Varioustranslated Byh. De Vere Stacpoole and Varioustranslated By H. De Vere Stacpoole



Aspects Of Love is an anthology of poetic explorations on the theme of erotic love - though one of the "poets" represented here is…

Holy Sonnets (version 2)

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John Donne



The Holy Sonnets—also known as the Divine Meditations or Divine Sonnets—are a series of nineteen poems by the English poet John Donne (1572–…

A Burnt Ship

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John Donne



LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Burnt Ship by John Donne. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 17th, 2010.

To His Mistress Going to Bed

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John Donne



John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England.He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets…

The Anniversary Poems

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John Donne



Elizabeth Drury, daughter of Donne's patron, Sir Robert Drury, died in 1610. A year later Donne laments her hyperbolically as the soul of th…

John Donne's Satires

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John Donne



Donne’s StyleIn John Donne’s day, a satire was such a poem as a satyr might compose. Satyrs were rough, savage creatures in Greek mythology…

Song (Donne version)

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John Donne



LibriVox volunteers bring you seven different readings of the short poem Song by John Donne, a weekly poetry project. Song is a bitter littl…

A Nocturnall Upon St. Lucies Day

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John Donne



LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 recordings of A Nocturnall Upon St. Lucies Day by John Donne. This was the fortnightly poetry project for wi…

Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward

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John Donne



John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England.Despite his great education and poetic talents, Donne lived in poverty fo…

Holy Sonnets (Version 3)

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John Donne



John Donne’s Holy Sonnets are a meditation on faith, loss, doubt and divine mercy. This recording uses the sequence of 19 sonnets as edited …