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Concise Biography &
Facts About John Donne
Nationality - English
Lifespan - 1572-1631
Family - Father was Robert Donne an ironmonger
Education - Oxford and Cambridge
Career - Poet, essayist, attorney, courtier and minister
Famous Poems by John Donne
For whom the bell tolls - ( No man is an island ) - poem
The Flea - poem
Famous Quote by John Donne
"No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of
the Continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well
as if a promontory were, as well as if
a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death
diminishes me, because I am involved
in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell
tolls; It tolls for thee."
John Donne, Meditation XVII
Additional Biography details
John Donne was famous not only for his poems but also for his
sonnets and songs. He is described as the first and greatest of
the metaphysical poets. The man was extremely ambitious and when
he was told that his entrance into court circles was totally
dependent on his being ordained and becoming a minister he agreed
and this became his route into the Royal Court, for some time he
was probably the most influential preacher in England, as in 1621,
having been ordained for five years, he became the dean of St.
Paul's Cathedral.
John Donne
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