Author: John Donne
Narrator: Richard Burton
Abridged: 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Saland Publishing
Published: 01/02/2009
Categories: Fiction, Poetry, European Poetry
John Donne (1572-1631) was an English poet, satirist,
philosopher, and chaplain who is considered a founder of the Metaphysical Poets,
a group of writers characterized by their ability to coax new perspective
through paradoxical images, inventive syntax, and imagery from art, philosophy,
and religion using an extended metaphor known as a conceit. Donne’s works are
notable for their realistic and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry,
religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires, and
sermons. He is firmly established as one of the greatest poets in the English
language, strongly influencing writers of the seventeenth century. He died in
1631 and was buried at St. Paul’s Cathedral.
I'm behind on my reading challenge, so if this counts as a book, I'll take it! I was VERY annoyed that the narrator does not read the names of the poems, just goes straight from one into the other, without even a pause. You don't know where one poem ends and another begins. John Donne, for his part,......more
