John Donne

 

By: Mahnoor Khan, Masooma Hussain, Rafia Sethi, Abrielle Noronha, Akshara George

 John Donne was a famous English poet born in 1572. He is considered the founder of metaphysical poetry.  Donne was born into a catholic family and was deeply religious himself. He obtained his education from both Cambridge and Oxford University. In 1598 after returning from an expedition from Spain, Donne was appointed secretary to Thomas Egerton. Soon after, John Donne secretly married Sir Thomas’s niece, Anne Moore.  . When Sir Thomas found out about their marriage he sent Donne to prison. Shortly after he was released, his wife died giving birth to their twelfth child. His love for his wife influenced him to write many of love poems. John Donne died on March 31st, 1631 of stomach cancer at the age of 59.

Chosen poem: A valediction forbidding morning has a literary criticism by Jennifer Bussey