Author:John Donne

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John Donne (1572–1631)

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Jacobean metaphysical poet

John Donne

Works

Songs and Sonnets (1633)

• The Good-Morrow
• Song: "Goe and catche a falling starre"
• Woman's Constancy
• The Undertaking
• The Sun Rising
• The Indifferent
• Love's Usury
• The Canonization
• The Triple Fool
• Lovers' Infiniteness
• Song: "Sweetest love, I do not go"
• The Legacy
• A Fever
• Air and Angels
• Break of Day
• The Anniversary
• A Valediction: Of My Name, in the Window
• Twickenham Garden
• Valediction To His Book
• Community
• Love's Growth
• Love's Exchange
• Confined Love
• The Dream
• A Valediction: Of Weeping
• Love's Alchemy
• The Flea
• The Curse
• The Message
• A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day
• Witchcraft by a Picture
• The Bait
• The Apparition
• The Broken Heart
• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
• The Ecstasy
• Love's Deity
• Love's Diet
• The Will
• The Funeral
• The Blossom
• The Primrose, Being at Montgomery Castle, Upon the Hill, on Which It Is Situate
• The Relic
• The Damp
• The Dissolution
• A Jet Ring Sent
• Negative Love
• The Prohibition
• The Expiration
• The Computation
• The Paradox

Later editions

• Farewell to Love
• A Lecture Upon the Shadow
• The Token
• Self-Love

Elegies and Heroic Epistle

Elegy I: Jealousy	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy II: The Anagram	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy III: Change	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy IV: The Perfume	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy V: His Picture	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy VI: O, let me not serve so	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy VII	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy VIII: The Comparison	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy IX: The Autumnal	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy X: The Dream	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XI: The Bracelet	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XII: His Parting from Her	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XIII: Julia	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XIV: A Tale of a Citizen and His Wife	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XV: The Expostulation	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XVI: On His Mistress	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XVII: Variety	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XVIII: Love's Progress	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XX: Love's War	1633		1896	Comparative text

• Heroic Epistle. Sapho to Philænis

Epigrams

• Hero and Leander
• Pyramus and Thisbe
• Niobe
• A Burnt Ship
• Fall of a Wall
• A Lame Beggar
• Cales and Guyana
• Sir John Wingefield
• A Self Accuser
• A Licentious Person
• Antiquary
• Disinherited
• Phryne
• An Obscure Writer
• Klockius
• Raderus
• Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus
• Ralphius
• The Liar

Satires

• Satire I
• Satire II
• Satire III
• Satire IV
• Satire V
• Upon Mr. Thomas Coryat's Crudities
• In Eundem Macaronicon
• Metempsycosis: Poêma Satyricon. (1601) also known as Infinitati Sacrum

Verse Letters to Several Personages

• The Storm
• The Calm
• To Sir Henry Wotton
• To Sir Henry Wootton
• Henrico Wottoni In Hibernia Belligeranti
• To Mr. T. W. "All hail sweet Poet"
• To Mr. T. W. "Haste thee harsh verse"
• To Mr. T. W. "Pregnant again with th'old twins Hope, and Fear"
• To Mr. T. W. "At once, from hence"
• To Mr. R. W. "Zealously my Muse"
• To Mr. R. W. "Muse not that by thy Mind"
• To Mr. C. B. "Thy friend, whom thy deserts"
• To Mr. E. G. "Even as lame things thirst"
• To Mr. R. W. "If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be"
• To Mr. R. W. "Kindly I envy thy songs perfection"
• To Mr. S. B. "O thou which to search out the secret parts"
• To Mr. I. L. "Of that short Roll of friends"
• To Mr. I. L. "Blest are your North parts"
• To Mr. B. B. "Is not thy sacred hunger of science"
• To the Countesse of Huntingdon. "That unripe side of Earth"
• To Sir H. W. At His Going Ambassador to Venice
• To Mrs. M. H. "Mad paper stay"
• To Sir Henry Goodyere
• To Mr. Roland Howard
• To the Countesse of Bedford. "Reason is our Soul's left hand"
• To the Countesse of Bedford. "You have refin'd me"
• To Sir Edwary Herbert at Julyers
• To the Countesse of Bedford. "T'have written then, when you writ"
• To the Countesse of Bedford. "This twilight of two years"
• To the Lady Bedford. "You that are she"
• To the Countesse of Bedford. "Honor is so sublime perfection"
• To the Countesse of Bedford. "Though I be dead, and buried"
• A Letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche, From Amyens
• To the Countesse of Huntingdon. "Man to God's image, Eve, to man's was made"
• To the Countesse of Salisbury. "Fair, great, and good"

Marriage Songs

• Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn
• Marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentine's Day
• Ecclogue. 1613. December 26

Elegies and Anniverseries

• A Funeral Elegy
• To the Praise of the Dead, and the Anatomy
• An Anatomy of the World—The First Anniversery
• The Harbinger to the Progress
• Of the Progress of the Soul—The Second Anniversery
• Elegy on the L. C. [Lord Chamberlain]
• Elegy on the Lady Markham
• Elegy on Mistress Boulstred
• Elegy. Death
• Elegy on the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Henry
• Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford
• An Hymn to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton

Epitaphs

• Epitaphs on Himself
• Omnibus

Divine Poems

• To E. of D. With Six Holy Sonnets
• To the Lady Magdalen Herbert: Of St. Mary Magdalen
• Holy Sonnets
• The Cross
• Resurrection, Imperfect
• Upon the Annunciation and Passion Falling upon One Day. 1608
• The Litany
• Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward
• A Hymn to God the Father
• Holy Sonnet: "Batter my heart, three person'd God; for, you"
• Holy Sonnet: "Death be not proud, though some have called thee"
• Hymn to God, My God, In My Sickness

Sermons

• A Sermon Preached at Greenwich, Aprill 30. 1615
• Death's Duell, or A Consolation to the Soul, against the dying Life and the living Death of the Body

Prose works

• Biathanatos (1608)
• Pseudo-Martyr (1610)
• Ignatius His Conclave (1611)
• Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624) (transcription project)
  • Meditation I
  • Meditation II
  • Meditation III
  • Meditation IV
  • Meditation V
  • Meditation VI
  • Meditation VII
  • Meditation VIII
  • Meditation IX
  • Meditation X
  • Meditation XI
  • Meditation XII
  • Meditation XIII
  • Meditation XIV
  • Meditation XV
  • Meditation XVI
  • Meditation XVII
  • Meditation XVIII
  • Meditation XIX
  • Meditation XX
  • Meditation XXI
  • Meditation XXII
  • Meditation XXIII

Works about Donne

• "Donne, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Donne, John," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Donne, John (1573-1631)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Donne, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (4) (1878)
• "Donne, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "John Donne", in Leslie Stephen's Studies of a Biographer, vol. 3
• Grierson, Herbert J. C., "English Poetry" passim in chap 4 of The First Half of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 7 of Periods of European Literature Series, George E. B. Saintsbury, ed., Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, (1906) in 12 vols.