Donne

[ duhn ]

noun

1. John, 1573–1631, English poet and clergyman.

Donne

/ dʌn /

noun

1. DonneJohn15731631MEnglishWRITING: poetRELIGION: preacher John. 1573–1631, English metaphysical poet and preacher. He wrote love and religious poems, sermons, epigrams, and elegies

Example Sentences

A chapter on the metaphysical poets is four-fifths Donne to one-fifth Herbert, with Marvell failing to get a look-in.

From The Daily Beast

Part Joan Didion and part John Donne, Manguso has the rare ability to devastate and illuminate with a single sentence.

From The Daily Beast

Your character in Wit seeks strength in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, especially his Holy Sonnet 10, “Death Be Not Proud.”

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The title of the Donne poem is “Oh, to Vex Me, Contraries Meet as One.”

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I ought to have mentioned him before, when I spoke of Donne: but by a slip of an old man's memory he was forgotten.

From Project Gutenberg

Me were leouere godd hit wite do me toward rome; en forte biginnen hit eft forte donne.

From Project Gutenberg

God hit wot me were leouere uorto don me touward rome; en uorto biginnen hit eft forto donne.

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It is of those who have acceded with Renan "La btise humaine est la seule chose qui donne une ide de l'infini."

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"Les ballons, ca ne se donne pas apres cinq heures," she said.

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