Songs and Sonnets

Name: Songs and Sonnets
Author: John Donne

by John Donne

Collection of lyric poems exploring physical desire, spiritual connection, and metaphysical wit

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John Donne

English metaphysical poet and Anglican dean whose love poems and religious sonnets combine passionate emotion with elaborate intellectual conceits. He is the central figure in the metaphysical poetry tradition.

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