LONDONLONDON — A book that argues Elizabethan poet John Donne should rank alongside William Shakespeare as a literary genius has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book award British writer Katherine ...
Why do we humans make and listen to poetry? “The world is charged with the grandeur of God” — everything in it is worthy of our attention. A poet fixes our gaze on some God-created being or experience ...
Death mark of the poet John Donne, engraved by Martin Droeshout, London 1632. (Photo by Bettmann / Getty) During the 16th century, the English were unusually spirited in their destruction of Catholics ...
John Donne began composing his "Holy Sonnets" 400 years ago, in 1609, and like much of his work they remain in print and influential to poets in many languages all these centuries later. Perhaps the ...
So here is a grim little question – what will you say on your deathbed? What message would you like to leave for posterity when you are gone? This author can think of a number of things, and not all ...
This image released by FSg shows book cover art for "Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne" by Katherine Rundell, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize. (FSG via AP) 31,136 people played the ...
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