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"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.
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).
Sonnet II also connects with "Batter My Heart" in terms of structure. Both sonnets reverse the typical movement in which elements opposed in the beginning are resolved at the end. [67] Both "As Due By Many Titles" and "Father, Part Of His Double Interest" (Sonnet XVI) use financial and legal terminology to describe the speaker’s relationship ...
Holy Sonnets (1633) As Due By Many Titles (1633) Death Be Not Proud (1633) The Sun Rising (1633) The Dream (1633) Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed (1633) Batter my heart, three-person'd God (1633) Poems (1633) Juvenilia: or Certain Paradoxes and Problems (1633) LXXX Sermons (1640) Fifty Sermons (1649) Essays in Divinity (1651)
The cycle consists of settings of nine of the nineteen Holy Sonnets of the English metaphysical poet John Donne (1572–1631). The following numberings are those of the Westmoreland manuscript of 1620, the most complete version of those sonnets. [6] IV: "Oh my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned" XIV: "Batter my heart, three person'd God"
"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.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes is a prose work by the English metaphysical poet and cleric in the Church of England, John Donne, published in 1624. It covers death, rebirth and the early modern concept of sickness as a visit from God, reflecting internal sinfulness.
The poem features images typical of the Petrarchan sonnet, yet they are more than the "threadbare Petrarchan conventionalities". [1] In critic Clay Hunt's view, the entire poem gives "a new twist to one of the most worn conventions of Elizabethan love poetry" by expanding "the lover–saint conceit to full and precise definition", a comparison that is "seriously meant". [2]