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=**__John Donne__** =

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 * Nationality - English
 * Lifespan - 1572-1631
 * Family - Father was Robert Donne who was an ironmonger.
 * Education - Oxford and Cambridge.
 * Career - Poet, essayist, attorney, courtier and minister
 * Famous poems - For Whom the Bell Tolls, No Man is an Island, and The Flea
 * Famous quote - "No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."
 * Famous for his sonnets and songs.
 * He became the dean of St. Paul's Cathedral.
 * He wrote hundreds of poems.
 * Most of his greatest poetic achievements remained unpublished.
 * Master of Paradox.
 * Poems were from Jacobean age.
 * Wrote secular and religious poetry.
 * The 2 long Anniversaries were published in 1611 and 1612.
 * He loved the latter genre.
 * Donne is often considered the greatest love poet in the English language.
 * Donne was born of Roman Catholic parents.
 * In 1597 Donne became secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, lord keeper of the great seal.
 * Donne married Anne More secretly without Sir George's blessing on their union.
 * == Batter my heart, three person'd God (Holy Sonnet 14) == ||
 * BATTER my heart, three person'd God; for, you ||
 * As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend; ||
 * That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me,'and bend ||
 * Your force, to break, blow, burn and make me new. ||
 * I, like an usurpt town, to'another due, ||
 * Labour to'admit you, but Oh, to no end, ||
 * Reason your viceroy in me, me should defend, ||
 * But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue. ||
 * Yet dearely'I love you,'and would be loved faine, ||
 * But am betroth'd unto your enemy: ||
 * Divorce me,'untie, or break that knot again; ||
 * Take me to you, imprison me, for I ||
 * Except you'enthrall me, never shall be free, ||
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