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By John Donne

John Donne (21 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) used to be an English poet, satirist, attorney, and priest who's thought of a widespread consultant of the metaphysical poets of the interval. His works are extraordinary for his or her mimetic and sensual type and comprise sonnets, love poetry, spiritual poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is famous for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, specially in comparison to that of his contemporaries. John Donne's sort is characterised by means of abrupt openings, a number of paradoxes, ironies, dislocations.

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