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John Donne
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JOHN DONNE
Born from a wealthy Catholic family in 1572, but later converted to Anglicanism
went to Oxford at 12
entered in The Inns of London in 1591 to study law
in this period he wrote love lyrics songs and sonnets
Appointed private secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton (VIP)
JOHN'S MISTAKE
his secrete marriage in 1601 with Anne More,Egerton's niece (17 yo)
dismissed from his job
Diplomatic mission in France (1611) with Robert Durry
SEPARATION FROM HIS WIFE
Valediction: Forbidden Mounding
Divine Poems (1607)
2 anti-catholic pamphles
renunciation to catholic faith
The King recognised his potential as religious thinker and preacher
encoureged him to take holy orders in the Anglican church in 1615
end of love poetry but contiued to write ( Holy Sonnets)
appointed chaplain to the king and dean of St. Paul's Cathedral
caused by his wife's death in 1617
where he was buried once died (1631)
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