John Donne

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No man is an Island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all people Man as social animal

Author

John Donne

Source

Meditation XVII Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1624 1620s 17th century

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Original Citation

Donne, John. "Meditation XVII." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes. London, 1624.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel. Vintage, 1999, meditation 17.

It comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal.

John Donne

On death.

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Topic

Death The human condition

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John Donne

Medium

Sermon

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1621 1620s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Donne, John. A sermon preached at Whitehall. 8 Mar. 1622, Whitehall, Westminster, Central London, England, UK.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "From a sermon preached at Whitehall (8 March 1622)." John Donne: The Major Works: Including Songs and Sonnets and Sermons, edited by John Carey. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

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Beauty fades Beauty Fading love Love

Author

John Donne

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Elegy II: The Anagram Elegies (John Donne)

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1631 1630s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Donne, John. "Elegy II: The Anagram." Elegies, edited by E. K. Chambers. Lawrence & Bullen, 1896, I. 27.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "Elegy: The Anagram." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 27.

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

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Topic

Beauty Grace Aging Middle age

Author

John Donne

Source

Elegy IX: The Autumnal Elegies (John Donne)

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1631 1630s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Donne, John. "Elegy IX: The Autumnal." Elegies, edited by E. K. Chambers. Lawrence & Bullen, 1896, I. 1.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "Elegy: The Autumnal." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 1.

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.

John Donne

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes

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Topic

Nature of death Death

Author

John Donne

Source

Meditation XVII Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1624 1620s 17th century

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Original Citation

Donne, John. "Meditation XVII." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes. London, 1624.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel. Vintage, 1999, meditation 17.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant,
The only harmless great thing.

John Donne

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Topic

Elephants Animals

Author

John Donne

Source

The Progress of the Soul Poems

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

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Original Citation

Donne, John. "The Progress of the Soul." Poems. London: John Marriot, 1633, st. 39.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "The Progress of the Soul. Metempsychosis." John Donne: The Major Works, edited by John Carey. Oxford University Press, 2009, st. 39.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

John Donne

Songs and Sonnets

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Topic

The afterlife

Author

John Donne

Source

Sonnet X Songs and Sonnets

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1631 1630s 17th century

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Original Citation

Donne, John. "Sonnet X." Songs and Sonnets. London, 1633, I. 13.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "Holy Sonnet X." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 13.

Full nakedness, all joys are due to thee.
As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be,
To taste whole joys.

John Donne

The Harmony of the Muses

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Topic

Nakedness

Author

John Donne

Source

To His Mistress Going to Bed The Harmony of the Muses

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1631 1630s 17th century

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Original Citation

Donne, John. "To His Mistress Going to Bed." The Harmony of the Muses. London: William Gilbertson, 1654, I. 33.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "Elegy: To His Mistress Going to Bed." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 33.

All kings, and all their favourites,
All glory of honours, beauties, wits,
The sun itself, which makes times as they pass,
Is elder by a year, now, than it was
When thou and I first one another saw.
All other things to their destruction draw;
Only our love hath no decay;
This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday;
Running it never runs from us away,
But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

John Donne

Songs and Sonnets

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Topic

Undying love

Author

John Donne

Source

The Anniversary Songs and Sonnets

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1631 1630s 17th century

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Original Citation

Donne, John. "The Anniversary." Songs and Sonnets. London, 1633, st. 1, I. 1.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "The Anniversary." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, st. 1, I. 1.