Author:John Donne

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John Donne
(1572–1631)

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Jacobean metaphysical poet

Works

Songs and Sonnets (1633)

Later editions

Elegies and Heroic Epistle

Elegy I: Jealousy	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy II: The Anagram	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy III: Change	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy IV: The Perfume	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy V: His Picture	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy VI: O, let me not serve so	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy VII	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy VIII: The Comparison	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy IX: The Autumnal	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy X: The Dream	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy XI: The Bracelet	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy XII: His Parting from Her	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy XIII: Julia	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy XIV: A Tale of a Citizen and His Wife	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy XV: The Expostulation	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy XVI: On His Mistress	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy XVII: Variety	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy XVIII: Love's Progress	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed	1633	1896	Comparative text
Elegy XX: Love's War	1633	1896	Comparative text

Heroic Epistle. Sapho to Philænis

Epigrams

Satires

Satire I
Satire II
Satire III
Satire IV
Satire V
Upon Mr. Thomas Coryat's Crudities
In Eundem Macaronicon
Metempsycosis: Poêma Satyricon. (1601) also known as Infinitati Sacrum

Verse Letters to Several Personages

The Storm
The Calm
To Sir Henry Wotton
To Sir Henry Wootton
Henrico Wottoni In Hibernia Belligeranti
To Mr. T. W. "All hail sweet Poet"
To Mr. T. W. "Haste thee harsh verse"
To Mr. T. W. "Pregnant again with th'old twins Hope, and Fear"
To Mr. T. W. "At once, from hence"
To Mr. R. W. "Zealously my Muse"
To Mr. R. W. "Muse not that by thy Mind"
To Mr. C. B. "Thy friend, whom thy deserts"
To Mr. E. G. "Even as lame things thirst"
To Mr. R. W. "If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be"
To Mr. R. W. "Kindly I envy thy songs perfection"
To Mr. S. B. "O thou which to search out the secret parts"
To Mr. I. L. "Of that short Roll of friends"
To Mr. I. L. "Blest are your North parts"
To Mr. B. B. "Is not thy sacred hunger of science"
To the Countesse of Huntingdon. "That unripe side of Earth"
To Sir H. W. At His Going Ambassador to Venice
To Mrs. M. H. "Mad paper stay"
To Sir Henry Goodyere
To Mr. Roland Howard
To the Countesse of Bedford. "Reason is our Soul's left hand"
To the Countesse of Bedford. "You have refin'd me"
To Sir Edwary Herbert at Julyers
To the Countesse of Bedford. "T'have written then, when you writ"
To the Countesse of Bedford. "This twilight of two years"
To the Lady Bedford. "You that are she"
To the Countesse of Bedford. "Honor is so sublime perfection"
To the Countesse of Bedford. "Though I be dead, and buried"
A Letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche, From Amyens
To the Countesse of Huntingdon. "Man to God's image, Eve, to man's was made"
To the Countesse of Salisbury. "Fair, great, and good"

Marriage Songs

Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn
Marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentine's Day
Ecclogue. 1613. December 26

Elegies and Anniverseries

A Funeral Elegy
To the Praise of the Dead, and the Anatomy
An Anatomy of the World—The First Anniversery
The Harbinger to the Progress
Of the Progress of the Soul—The Second Anniversery
Elegy on the L. C. [Lord Chamberlain]
Elegy on the Lady Markham
Elegy on Mistress Boulstred
Elegy. Death
Elegy on the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Henry
Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford
An Hymn to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton

Epitaphs

Epitaphs on Himself
Omnibus

Divine Poems

To E. of D. With Six Holy Sonnets
To the Lady Magdalen Herbert: Of St. Mary Magdalen
Holy Sonnets
The Cross
Resurrection, Imperfect
Upon the Annunciation and Passion Falling upon One Day. 1608
The Litany
Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward
A Hymn to God the Father
Holy Sonnet: "Batter my heart, three person'd God; for, you"
Holy Sonnet: "Death be not proud, though some have called thee"

Sermons

A Sermon Preached at Greenwich, Aprill 30. 1615
Death's Duell, or A Consolation to the Soul, against the dying Life and the living Death of the Body

Prose works

Biathanatos (1608)
Pseudo-Martyr (1610)
Ignatius His Conclave (1611)
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
- Meditation I
- Meditation II
- Meditation III
- Meditation IV
- Meditation V
- Meditation VI
- Meditation VII
- Meditation VIII
- Meditation IX
- Meditation X
- Meditation XI
- Meditation XII
- Meditation XIII
- Meditation XIV
- Meditation XV
- Meditation XVI
- Meditation XVII
- Meditation XVIII
- Meditation XIX
- Meditation XX
- Meditation XXI
- Meditation XXII
- Meditation XXIII

Works about Donne

"Donne, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Donne, John," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
"Donne, John (1573-1631)," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
“Donne, John” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1878).
"Donne, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"John Donne", in Leslie Stephen's Studies of a Biographer, vol. 3
Grierson, Herbert J. C., "English Poetry" passim in chap 4 of The First Half of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 7 of Periods of European Literature Series, George E. B. Saintsbury, ed., Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, (1906) in 12 vols.

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