John Donne (redirected from Jon Donne)

Donne, John 

Born Jan. 22 or Feb. 12, 1572; died Mar. 31, 1631. English poet.

Donne secretly married the niece of the lord chancellor, for which he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for a time. Later he entered the church and became dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London in 1621. The founder of the metaphysical school of poets, Donne was the author of the religious and mystical poems Of the Progres of the Soule (1601) and An Anatomic of the World (1611). In Soviet literary criticism, Donne’s work is viewed as a deviation from the life-affirming humanism of the Renaissance and as the epitome of the baroque style.

WORKS

Complete Poetry and Selected Prose. New York, 1952.
In Russian translation:
In O. Rumer, Izbr. perevody. Moscow, 1959.

REFERENCES

Istoriia angliiskoi literatury, vol. 1, issue 2. Moscow-Leningrad, 1945. Pages 165-67.
Unger, L. Donne’s Poetry and Modern Criticism. New York, 1962.
Bald, R. C. John Donne: A Life. [London] 1970. (Bibliography on pp. XIII-XIV.)