John Donne’s reply to Marlowe, perhaps written to amuse fellow residents at the Inns of Court, where he was once Master of the Revels, also reads a bit like satire. “Come live with me, and be my love, ...

"I Am a Little World Made Cunningly (Holy Sonnet V)" was published in the 1635 edition of John Donne's work "Poems." John Donne was born on Jan. 22, 1572, in London. He is known as a major ...

Donne’s poetry isn’t so easy to master. His near contemporary Ben Jonson and his later advocate William Hazlitt both seem to have formed the same view, namely that Donne was a brilliant man, a poetic ...

He’s radical, rakish and romantic, obsessively questioning himself, neurotically worrying about God, even while celebrating a healthy sexual appetite. No wonder college students love him. In so many ...

Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), whose birthday we commemorate today, numbers among the English metaphysical poets active throughout the seventeenth century. A generation behind those metaphysical greats, ...

So here is a grim little question – what will you say on your deathbed? What message would you like to leave for posterity when you are gone? This author can think of a number of things, and not all ...

This image released by FSg shows book cover art for "Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne" by Katherine Rundell, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize. (FSG via AP) 31,136 people played the ...

Richard Crashaw (1613-1649) was an English poet and, like John Donne and George Herbert, he is considered one of the major metaphysical poets. Like these two poets, too, Crashaw was an Anglican priest ...