Donne, John

Cultural  

1. A seventeenth-century English poet and clergyman. Donne is famous for his intricate metaphors, as in a poem in which he compares two lovers to the two legs of a drawing compass. He also wrote learned and eloquent sermons and meditations. The expressions “Death, be not proud,” “No man is an island,” and “for whom the bell tolls” are drawn from Donne's works.

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Example Sentences

Temporarily, the dilemma, of Poet Donne, his publishers and readers resembled the one he once scratched on the wall of his Fleet Street Prison cell:�Anne Donne, John Donne, Undone.

From Time Magazine Archive

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From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn

Donne, John, a celebrated poet and dean of St. Paul's, was the son of a merchant of London, in which city he was born in 1573.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various