A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead. Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pampered, swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do. Oh stay, three lives in one flea ...

Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den? 'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.

Praises of John Donne the metaphysical poet—most distinguished member of a school numbering George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Abraham Cowley, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne—have ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This book considers the professional contribution of John Donne to an emerging homiletic public sphere in the last years of the Jacobean ...

October: Monster by Dzifa Benson “One language is never enough”, Dzifa Benson writes in the first section of Monster, her ...

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[N]ever send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624. The plague ...

Lewton, who oversaw the RKO horror unit that churned out a series of esoteric, visually stunning, and sometimes ...

British poet and scholar John Donne famously wrote ‘No man is an island’ in his poem of the same name, and the adage has remained in popular vernacular since its 16th century beginnings. The original ...

Relaunched in 2010 under the editorship of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Paul Muldoon, edited from 2013 to 2023 by the poet and MacArthur fellow Susan Stewart, and now edited by the acclaimed poet Rowan ...

Poets have been writing about death since the beginning of the written word, and it’s no wonder their poems often appear at ...