Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her," and "To His Mistris Going to Bed." Presented as well are Donne's satires, epigrams, verse letters, and holy sonnets, along with his most ambitious and important poems, the Anniversaries. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits.This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. He wrote secular poems as well as erotic and love poems. Another important theme in Donne's poetry is the idea of true religion, something that he spent much time considering and about which he often theorized. His early career was marked by poetry that bore immense knowledge of English society and he met that knowledge with sharp criticism.
These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. John Donne (/ˈdʌn/ dun) (between 24 January and 19 June 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England.
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