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Handwritten draft of Donne's Sonnet XIV, "Batter my heart, three-person'd God", likely in the hand of Donne's friend, Rowland Woodward, from the Westmoreland manuscript (circa 1620) The Holy Sonnets —also known as the Divine Meditations or Divine Sonnets —are a series of nineteen poems by the English poet John Donne (1572–1631).
Lines. 14. " Sonnet X ", also known by its opening words as " Death Be Not Proud ", is a fourteen-line poem, or sonnet, by English poet John Donne (1572–1631), one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets group of seventeenth-century English literature. Written between February and August 1609, it was first published posthumously in 1633.
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne is a song cycle composed in 1945 by Benjamin Britten for tenor or soprano voice and piano, and published as his Op. 35. [1] It was written for himself and his life-partner, the tenor Peter Pears, and its first performance was by them at the Wigmore Hall, London on 22 November 1945.
John Donne (/ dʌn / DUN; 1571 or 1572 [a] – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. [2] Under Royal Patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London (1621–1631). [1] He is considered the preeminent representative of the ...
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. [1] " Holy Sonnet XIV " – also known by its first line as " Batter my heart, three-person'd God " – is a poem written by the English poet John Donne (1572 – 1631). It is a part of a larger series of poems called Holy Sonnets, comprising nineteen poems in total. The poem was printed and published for ...
It was first published in 1633, two years after Donne’s death. It is included in the Holy Sonnets – a series of poems written by John Donne. According to the currently adopted sequence, the poem comes second in the order. [1] It has also appeared in all of the proposed sequences so far - changes in positioning were, however, minimal, as the ...
Holy Sonnet VIII – also known by its opening words as If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified – is a poem written by John Donne, an English metaphysical poet. It was first published in 1633, two years after the author's death. [1] It is included in the "Holy Sonnets," a collection of nineteen poems written by John Donne.
And worship'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not. " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free " is a sonnet by William Wordsworth written at Calais in August 1802. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807, appearing as the nineteenth poem in a section entitled 'Miscellaneous sonnets'.