John Donne

Although the poet John Donne lived so long ago, some phrases from his writing still linger with us today, such as "e;no man is an island,"e; "e;death be not proud,"e; and "e;for whom the bell tolls,"e; which provided the title for one of Ernest Hemingway's novels.John Donne used poems as a means of metaphysical inquiry and meditation as well as for very sensual expression. His daringly original use of imagery and conceits to lead the mind to profound understandings marked a new, intellectual approach to poetry. Like Shakespeare, Donne was a genius at making common words yield up rich, poetic meaning. His thought is complex, but his poems unfold in a logical way.This collection includes songs, satires, elegies, selections from The Anniversaries, and divine poems.Contents are:I. Divine Poems "e;Resurrection, Imperfect"e; "e;Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward"e; "e;From the Lamentations of Jeremy"e; "e;Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness"e; "e;A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany"e; "e;A Hymn to God the Father"e;II. From The Anniversaries "e;An Anatomy of the World"e; "e;Of the Progress of the Soul"e;III. Songs, Satires, Elegies "e;The Expiration"e; "e;The Computer"e; "e;The Bait"e; "e;Song"e; "e;Love's Deity"e; "e;Woman's Contancy"e; "e;The Indifferent"e; "e;Community"e; "e;The Curse"e; "e;The Flea"e; "e;The Message"e; "e;The Apparition"e; "e;The Broken Heart"e; "e;Break of Day"e; "e;Confined Love"e; "e;From Sappho to Philaenis"e; "e;To His Mistress Going to Bed (Elegy 19)"e; "e;The Good Morrow"e; "e;The Sun Rising"e; "e;Jealousy (Elegy 1)"e; "e;Love's Exchange"e; "e;The Will"e; "e;Satire 2"e; "e;Satire 3"e; "e;From Metempsychosis"e; "e;The Storm"e; "e;The Calm"e; "e;To Sir Henry Wotton"e; "e;His Picture (Elegy 5"e; "e;On His Mistress (Elegy 16)"e; "e;The Dream"e; "e;The Prohibition"e; "e;The Canonization"e; "e;Air and Angels"e; "e;The Ecstasy"e; "e;A Fever"e; "e;Lover's Infiniteness"e; "e;The Anniversary"e; "e;A Valediciton: of Weeping"e; "e;Song"e; "e;A Valediciton: Forbidding Mouring"e; "e;The Undertaking"e; "e;The Funeral"e; "e;The Relic"e; "e;Twicknam Garden"e; "e;A Lecture upon the Shadow"e; "e;A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day"e; "e;The Autumnal (Elegy 9)"e;