The last decade of the sixteenth century abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword also, in the poems of John Donne, a new and very abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword style of verse.
Donne, born in 1573, abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword one of the keenest and most powerful intellects of the time, but his early manhood was largely abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword in dissipation, though he studied theology and abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword and seems to have seen abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword service. It was during this abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword that he wrote his love poems.
Then, while living with his wife and abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword in uncertain dependence on noble patrons, he turned to abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword poetry. At last he entered the Church, became famous as one of the most abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword preachers of the time, and through the abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword of King James was rapidly promoted abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword he was made Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral. He died in 1631 after having furnished a abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword instance of the fantastic morbidness of the period (post-Elizabethan) by having his abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword painted as he stood wrapped in his
shroud on a abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword urn.
The distinguishing general characteristic of Donne's poetry is the abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword combination of an aggressive intellectuality with the abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword form and spirit. On many readers Donne's verse exercises a abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword attraction. Its definite peculiarities are outstanding: 1. By a process of abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword exaggeration and minute elaboration Donne carries the Elizabethan conceits almost to the abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword possible limit. 2. He abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword the material of his figures of speech from abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword unpoetical sources--partly from the activities of every-day life, but abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword from all the sciences and school-knowledge of the time. The material is abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword, but Donne gives it full poetic abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword picturesqueness. Thus he speaks of one spirit overtaking another abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword death as one bullet shot out of a abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword may overtake another which has lesser velocity but was earlier abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword. It was because of this characteristic that Dr. Johnson abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword to Donne and his followers the abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword clumsy name of 'Metaphysical' (Philosophical) poets. 'Fantastic' would have been a better abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword. 3. In vigorous reaction against the sometimes nerveless melody of most abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword poets Donne often makes his verse as ruggedly condensed (often as abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword) and as harsh as possible. 4. In his love abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword he often emphasizes the English abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword of independence, taking as a favorite theme the incredible fickleness of abstractappliedatchildrenconcretecontemporarydischargeddrawseloquentespeciallyextremefarthestfavorfuneralgunhighlylawlyricmilitarynoteobscureperiodpicturepoemspossessedpresentsratherreligiousremarkablestrangestrikinguniqueuntilwastedwomanword.
(adapted from "A History of English Literature" by Robert Huntington Fletcher)