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Sonnet X, Holy Sonnet X also called by a fragment of its first line as Death Be Not Proud, is a poem with 14 lines, or sonnet, by Briitsh poet John Donne, among the key personages in the metaphysical poets of 16th century English literature. Drafted within February and August 1609 the poem was not produced when John was still living and was first printed after his death in 1633. It is contained as among the 19 sonnets that consist of Donne’s Holy Sonnets or Divine Meditations, one of his highly popular compositions. Many editions count the poem as the 10th in the sonnet series, which charts the list of poems in the Westmoreland Manuscript (circa 1620), the much comprehensive array of the set, founded in the late 19th century. John Donne was a British poet and clergy in the Church of England. He is deemed to be the paramount exemplar of the metaphysical poets. His opuses are notable for their intense, corporeal flair including sonnets, love verses, devotional poems, translations to Latin, ditties, elegies, songs, sarcasms and homilies. His poetry is notable for its vitality of linguistic and originality of figure of speech, particularly likened to that of his contemporaries. John’s composition is exemplified by rushed introductions and many oxymora, humors and disarticulations. These aspects, as well as his recurrent melodramatic or common language cadences, his tense syntax and his strong expression, were both a result opposed to the efficiency of traditional Elizabethan poetry and a version into English of European flamboyance and mannerist skills. His first hurtle was made obvious by poetry that irk vast knowledge of English community and he chanced on those facts with harsh disparagement. The other main idea in John’s poetry is the topic of factual faith, roughly that he devoted more time thinking through and of which he always hypothesized. He created earthly verses also amatory and romantic verses.
Product ID: 9781776727872
Sku: PC-PAUR-A6NI
