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Luminarium: John Donne These nice-looking pages, from Luminarium: 17th Century English Literature, feature biographical and bibliographical information, essays on the poet, his works, and more. The pages put Donne alongside other authors of the period as well, which may be helpful to the student. The most important features of this site are an extensive list of links to 96 of his works, including some sermons, and to essays on Donne's poems. There is also an excellent list of resources, which includes quite a few images of the poet. | |
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John Donne Live Recitation Every day, on the hour, fans of the Great Books from around the world gather here to participate in a live recitation centered about John Donne. Generally this chatroom is most active from 9:00 PM to 3:00 AM EST, but you may arrange other times to meet here in the John Donne Lecture Hall, where you can also post more permanent messages and enjoy an archive of fellow student's wit and wisdom. | |
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Incompetech: John Donne From Incompetech's humorous British Author Series, here are the pages on John Donne. The main page includes some offhand but not insubstantial biographical material, and links to five of the author's poems. Some of the anti-intellectual offhandedness in the biography may be a bit misleading to the student. For instance, the page author suggests "no one really knows" what the term "metaphysical" (as in "The Metaphysical Poets," i.e., the school of poetry in which most scholars place Donne) really means. This is not really an accurate statement, and is intended probably more as a joking comment on the sometimes vague connections between poets classified together under that heading. | |
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University of Toronto: John Donne Here is a selection of 41 poems by Donne. In addition, there have been written many poems by other authors about the poet. Among them are the following three poems, also found at the University of Toronto site. | |
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S. T. Coleridge: "On Donne's Poetry" If one sometimes finds Donne's meter stilted or his rhymes forced, it may be of some comfort to read Coleridge's funny but rather disparaging quatrain on the poet. Coleridge nonetheless did much to repopularize Donne's poetry in the nineteenth century. | |
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Ben Jonson: "To John Donne" Here is an earlier poem on Donne from poet and playwright Ben Jonson. Jonson was born in the same year as Donne, and was the leading light of the other major movement in poetry at the time, the Cavalier Poets. This poem will seem to many readers more properly worshipful than Coleridge's. | |
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Thomas Carew: "An Elegy upon the Death of St. Paul's Dr. John Donne" Here is a longer poem in praise of the poet, by his younger contemporary Thomas Carew. It is widely considered to be Carew's best work. | |
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John Donne Quotations From Frank's Creative Quotations, here are five selected quotations from Donne's work. | |
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Elizabeth T. Knuth's John Donne Page Here is a page from a personal site that links up to works by the poet. It collects quite a few links to Donne's sermons. | |
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A Brief History of John Donne This page contains a brief biographical sketch of the poet. | |
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Project Bartleby: The Oxford Book of English Verse From the Oxford Book of English Verse, edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, here is a selection of poems by Donne that places him among other poets in the English tradition. It is also interesting to see which of Donne's poems were thought to be particularly important at the beginning of the century. | |
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John Donne, Priest, Poet, and Preacher Here is a page containing some biographical information, a bit of poetry and some excerpts from the author's sermons. The focus here is on Donne as a man of the cloth. | |
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The John Donne Society Homepage In its relatively brief existence, The John Donne Society has proven to be an intellectually stimulating and thoroughly convivial organization for students of the seventeenth century in general and of John Donne in particular. The society provides information about membership, its publications, and its annual conference. In addition, one can read a "progress report" on the Variorum Edition of Donne's work. There is also a page of related links. | |
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Books Online: John Donne This site indexes links to three on-line books by the author: Death's Duel, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and the selected works, also found at the Luminarium site, listed above. | |
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John Donne's Use of Space An ariticle by Lisa Gorton: "Donne's writing shows he was fascinated by new discoveries. He took up the modern idiom of maps and discovery with delight. But he was also deeply attached to the past, and his assumptions about space belonged to an old tradition: a cosmographic rather than cartographic way of imagining space." |
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