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Article: Poems of John Donne: Divine Poems
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Donne, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Divine Poems
The difference in subject matter between the Songs and Sonnets and the
Divine Poems is sometimes taken, in view of Donne's later career as a
clergyman, to support a biographical theory of a young "Jack Donne," a
libertine sowing wild oats and recording his excesses in verse, and a
chastened John Donne, and Anglican Divine repenting the sins of his youth. The
sketchy facts, however, are hardly sufficient to lend substance to this
attractive notion. There seems to be a good deal of overlapping in the time
covered by the two groups, and it is perhaps best simply to consider the poems
on their own merits until the problems of dating have been more ...