John Donne (1) (1572–1631)
Author of The Complete English Poems
For other authors named John Donne, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Poet and churchman John Donne was born in London in 1572. He attended both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, but did not receive a degree from either university. He studied law at Lincoln's Inn, London, in 1592, and was appointed private secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, show more Keeper of the Great Seal, in 1598. He became an Anglican priest in 1615 and was appointed royal chaplain later that year. In 1621 he was named dean of St. Paul's Cathedral. Donne prepared for his own death by leaving his sickbed to deliver his own funeral sermon, "Death's Duel", and then returned home to have a portrait of himself made in his funeral shroud. He died in London on March 31, 1631. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: John Donne, late 17th century copy of a 1616 work by Isaac Oliver (died 1622)
Series
Works by John Donne
The complete poetry and selected prose of John Donne & the complete poetry of William Blake (1941) 183 copies
John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations (1963) 145 copies
John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions and Prayers (1990) — Author — 119 copies
The Poems of John Donne Volume I: The Text of the Poems with Appendices (Oxford English Texts) (1912) — Author — 16 copies
Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series Book 9) (2012) 14 copies
Deaths duell: A sermon delivered before King Charles I in the beginning of Lent 1630/1 (1969) 13 copies
The life and letters of John Donne 12 copies
CCEL Classics CD: works by Saint Augustine, John Calvin, John Donne, Julian of Norwich, Brother Lawrence, Martin… (2006) — Author — 10 copies
The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne: Volume I: Sermons Preached at the Jacobean Courts, 1615-19 (2015) 9 copies
Pseudo-Martyr: Wherein Out of Certaine Propositions and Gradations, This Conclusion Is Evicted. That Those Which Are of (1974) 8 copies
The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne: Volume 3: Sermons preached at the Court of Charles I (2013) 7 copies
Selection Poems 7 copies
The Courtier's Library, or Catalogus Librorum Aulicorum incomparabilium et non vendibilium (1930) 7 copies
Geh, fang einen Stern, der fällt: Gedichte von John Donne, George Herbert und Andrew Marvell (2001) 6 copies
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Vol. 8: The Epigrams, Epithalamions, Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and… (1995) 6 copies
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 6: The Anniversaries and the Epicedes and Obsequies (1995) 6 copies
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 5 copies
JOHN DONNE COMPLETE WORKS ULTIMATE COLLECTION - All Poems, Love Poetry, Holy Sonnets, Devotions, Meditations, English… (2013) 5 copies
Donne's sermon of valediction at his going into Germany, preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619 5 copies
Ancient History of the Septuagint 4 copies
The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne: Volume 12: Sermons Preached at St Paul's Cathedral, 1626 (|c… (2017) 4 copies
The Best of John Donne (featuring "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning", "Meditation 17 (For Whom the Bell Tolls and No… (2012) 4 copies
Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 4.1: The Songs and Sonets: Part 1: General and Topical Commentary (2017) 3 copies
John Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Plot Sermon: A Parallel-Text Edition (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies) (1996) 3 copies
Erleuchte, Dame, unsere Finsternis : Songs, Sonette, Elegien ; zweisprachige Ausgabe (2009) 3 copies
The Canonization {poem} 3 copies
The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne: Volume V: Sermons Preached at Lincoln's Inn, 1620-23 (2015) 3 copies
The First Anniversarie: An Anatomie of the World (The English replicas) (The English replicas) 2 copies
Sonetos de Meditação 2 copies
The Sermons of John Donne. Edited with Introductions and Critical Apparatus by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter.… (1953) 2 copies
English Lyric Poetry: John Donne, William Wordsworth, John Keats, William Butler Yeats (Living Masterpieces of English… (1954) 2 copies
Komu zvoní hrana 2 copies
The poems of John Donne, from the text of the edition of 1633 revised by James Russell Lowell 2 copies
John Donne's Poetry Selected and Edited By A.A. Clements: Authoratative texts and Criticisms (1966) 2 copies
Poems, &c. 2 copies
Holy Sonnets 1 to 19 2 copies
The Top 500 Poems 2 copies
Treasury of John Donne 1 copy
John Donne's Poetry 1 copy
No man is an islan 1 copy
The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631, Vol. 2 of 6: With a Memoir of His Life (Classic… (2016) 1 copy
The Works Of John Donne, D.D., Dean Of Saint Paul'S, 1621-1631; With A Memoir Of His Life (Volume I) (2021) 1 copy
Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany, preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619 1 copy
Selected poems 1 copy
Poèmes 1 copy
The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631, Vol. 5 of 6: With a Memoir of His Life (Classic… (2017) 1 copy
The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631, Vol. 3 of 6: With a Memoir of His Life (Classic… (2017) 1 copy
Donne poems 1 copy
Donne poems 1 copy
Predavanja o senci 1 copy
Devociones 1 copy
Poetry of Johne Donne 1 copy
Discussions of John Donne 1 copy
Selections from John Donne 1 copy
An Anatomy of the World: Wherein, by Occasion of the Untimely Death of Mistris Elizabeth Drury, the Frailty and the… (2010) 1 copy
Donne - Selected 1 copy
Poems on several occasions 1 copy
The Bait [poem] 1 copy
Elegies 1 copy
Selected Shorter Poems 1 copy
Poesie amorose 1 copy
Other Divine Poems 1 copy
The Works of John Donne: Death's Duel, Songs and Sonnets, Divine Poems, Holy Sonnets, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions… (2013) 1 copy
The Love Poems of John Donne 1 copy
Poems of John Donne 1 copy
A prayer / by John Donne 1 copy
SERMONI 1 copy
Satires 1 copy
Problems 1 copy
Marriage Poems 1 copy
Epicedes and Obsequies 1 copy
Epigrams 1 copy
Infinitati Sacrum 1 copy
Latin Poems 1 copy
Doubtful Verses 1 copy
Paradoxes 1 copy
Letters of John Donne 1 copy
The Divine Poems of John Donne [and] The Elegies and the Songs and Sonnets of John Donne Two Volumes 1 copy
Medytacje ; Alembik Śmierci 1 copy
sermons of John Donne, The 1 copy
Selections of John Donne 1 copy
Associated Works
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (2004) — Contributor — 1,014 copies
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 902 copies
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (2012) — Contributor — 276 copies
English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to Jonson (1963) — Contributor — 155 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Contributor — 40 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 4: The World Around Us (1968) — Contributor; Contributor — 29 copies
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contributor — 29 copies
The Roads from Bethlehem: Christmas Literature from Writers Ancient and Modern (1993) — Contributor — 28 copies
Four Metaphysical Poets Eman Poet Lib #24 (Everyman Poetry) (1985) — Contributor, some editions — 26 copies
A Book of 'Characters' from Theophrastus, Joseph Hall, Sir Thomas Overbury, Nicolas Breton, John Earle, Thomas Fuller, (1924) — Contributor — 4 copies
Characters : together with poems, news, edicts, and paradoxes based on the eleventh edition of A wife now the widow of… (2002) — Contributor — 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1572
- Date of death
- 1631-03-31
- Burial location
- St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England, UK
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Country (for map)
- England, UK
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
- Place of death
- London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Pyrford, Surrey, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK - Education
- Oxford University (Hertford College)
University of Cambridge (Doctor of Divinity - 1618) - Occupations
- poet
Member of Parliament
secretary (to Thomas Egerton)
Dean (St. Paul's ∙ London) - Relationships
- Donne, George (son)
Heywood, Jasper (uncle)
Heywood, John (grandfather) - Short biography
- The first biography, Izaak Walton's Life of Donne, is available at http://anglicanhistory.org/walton/don... Poems and other works by Donne can be found at http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/do... Recent novels written about John Donne include Mary Novik's Conceit, http://www.marynovik.com
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John Donne in Legacy Libraries (March 2022)
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Wood engravings by Jane Lydbury. Fleece Press. One of 200 copies bound in maroon paper boards with paper label. 200 copies of this book were printed by hand by Simon Lawrence on an 1853 Hopkinson and Cope Albion Press. The type is Van Dijck, and the paper is Barcham Green Charter Oak. 7 copies were printed on sheepskin parchment and bound by Angela James.
The star rating shows my enjoyment level, not the book's quality. I am in no way qualified to say anything about that. I did enjoy reading these poems though. The early ones were saucy, snarky and quite naughty. The later Divine poems were beautiful. All were interesting, though I am lacking quite a bit of knowledge to get their full meaning.
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Only four resonated with me:
Love's Growth
Break of Day
Lover's Infinities
and - The Bait