John Donne

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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel

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John Donne - Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English theologian and writer John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a...

David Wales 9 hours 11 minutes

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Erotica

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John Donne - Aspects Of Love - An Anthology

Aspects Of Love is an anthology of poetic explorations on the theme of erotic love — though one of the «poets» represented here is better known, even than as a dramatist, as the philosopher, Plato. His Symposium heads...

Tony Addison 9 hours 5 minutes

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Essays

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John Donne - Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit and 8 more 5 hours 59 minutes

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Elegies & Odes

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John Donne - Anniversary Poems

Elizabeth Drury, daughter of Donne's patron, Sir Robert Drury, died in 1610. A year later Donne laments her hyperbolically as the soul of the created universe. In «An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary,» he...

Thomas A. Copeland 1 hour 10 minutes

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Single author

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John Donne - Selection of Divine Poems

John Donne was an English Jacobean preacher, sometime lawyer, later in life a Member of Parliament and Royal Chaplain. Marrying for love against the wishes of his influential father-in-law; Donne's career was cast...

Nathan 48 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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John Donne - To His Mistress Going to Bed

John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include...

Algy Pug and 11 more 43 minutes

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Poetry

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John Donne - Dream

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Dream by John Donne. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 17, 2011. John Donne was an English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest who is considered a...

Amy Koenig and 16 more 35 minutes

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Sonnets

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John Donne - Holy Sonnets (version 2)

The Holy Sonnets—also known as the Divine Meditations or Divine Sonnets—are a series of nineteen poems by the English poet John Donne (1572–1631). The sonnets were first published in 1633—two years after Donne's...

Michael Armenta 28 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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John Donne - Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward

John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England. Despite his great education and poetic talents, Donne lived in poverty for several years, relying heavily on wealthy friends. He spent much of the...

Algy Pug and 7 more 25 minutes

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Poetry

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John Donne - Holy Sonnets

John Donne (1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works, notable for their realistic and sensual style, include sonnets, love poetry,...

David Barnes 23 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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John Donne - Nocturnall Upon St. Lucies Day

LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 recordings of A Nocturnall Upon St. Lucies Day by John Donne. This was the fortnightly poetry project for winter solstice 2008.

Anne Cheng and 5 more 19 minutes

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Poetry

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John Donne - Death Be Not Proud

This week we’re marking the American Memorial Day with eleven readings of a John Donne poem. Memorial Day was conceived as a time to remember military men and women who had lost their lives in war. Kings and...

Andrew Miller and 10 more 16 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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