![]() He spent much of the money he inherited during and after his education on womanising, literature, pastimes, and travel. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits.ĭespite his great education and poetic talents, Donne lived in poverty for several years, relying heavily on wealthy friends. He wrote secular poems as well as erotic and love poems. Another important theme in Donne’s poetry is the idea of true religion, something that he spent much time considering and theorising about. His early career was marked by poetry that bore immense knowledge of British society and he met that knowledge with sharp criticism. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques. ![]() ![]() Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. ![]() ![]() John Donne was an English poet, satirist, lawyer and priest. ![]()
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