John Donne

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)