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By John Donne

John Donne (21 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was once an English poet, satirist, legal professional, and priest who's thought of a favourite consultant of the metaphysical poets of the interval. His works are striking for his or her mimetic and sensual type and contain sonnets, love poetry, non secular poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is famous for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, in particular compared 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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