John Donne’s reply to Marlowe, perhaps written to amuse fellow residents at the Inns of Court, where he was once Master of the Revels, also reads a bit like satire. “Come live with me, and be my love, ...
Wendy Smith is a New York-based critic and the author of "Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940." IN the 1620s, long after he had taken holy orders and become Dr. John Donne, the ...
San Diego Union-Tribune: Biography of poet John Donne wins UK nonfiction book prize
LONDONLONDON — A book that argues Elizabethan poet John Donne should rank alongside William Shakespeare as a literary genius has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book award British writer Katherine ...
Death mark of the poet John Donne, engraved by Martin Droeshout, London 1632. (Photo by Bettmann / Getty) During the 16th century, the English were unusually spirited in their destruction of Catholics ...
The title of Katherine Rundell’s biography of the Renaissance poet and divine, John Donne, comes from his sermons, which few people read today. In a funeral sermon for Magdalen Herbert (the mother of ...
The Financial Times: Super-Infinite — the life and rhymes of John Donne
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. John Donne was an everything guy. Prodigy, rake, soldier, poet, flatterer, prisoner, priest. He was born a ...
In 1633, a bookseller based in a churchyard on Fleet Street issued a long-awaited collection of poetry. At that time, St Dunstan’s was a hub of literary and legal chat, and given his fascination with ...