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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).
Both "As Due By Many Titles" and "Batter My Heart" (Sonnet XIV) suggest that "sin is something that happens to the sinner rather than something he does." [ 64 ] "Batter My Heart" is said to share similar images of captivity and liberation with "As Due By Many Titles," where the speaker "complains that he has been usurped by the devil and begs ...
Regina Hansen Willman set Donne's "First Holy Sonnet" for voice and string trio. In 1945, Benjamin Britten set nine of Donne's Holy Sonnets in his song cycle for voice and piano The Holy Sonnets of John Donne . in 1968, Williametta Spencer used Donne's text for her choral work "At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners."
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"
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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.