Blogs about: John Donne
Featured Blog
John Donne & Batter my Heart: Editing Iambic Pentameter Then & Now
October 14 2009 – New Post John Donne: His Sonnet IX • Forgive & Forget May 18 2009 – The explication of the sonnet, hopefully, has been tweaked and improved. UnDonne I was looking for… more →
PoemShape
The Negative in the Positive
— 1 comment
William Hurst wrote 2 days ago: Why is it that one would find it necessary to compose poetry? It’s just prose laid out in line … more →
An Absence
— 2 comments
sarahbaram wrote 3 days ago: As the year 2009 comes to a close, the English language is forced to digress. Character limitations … more →
Thanksgiving in the midst of fear: Plague-time poet John Donne still celebrated God's goodness
Chris Armstrong wrote 1 week ago: With Thanksgiving coming soon and plenty in the world to be worried about and afraid of, these words … more →
If I Were A Girl
delboywilson wrote 1 week ago: I am the darkness to her light She is the passion to my plight She is my wind, she is my rain I am h … more →
goodbye fall.
hellorissy wrote 1 week ago: When I was a senior in high school, I took AP Literature and some people might cringe at the thought … more →
"Death be not Proud" by John Donne
Robbie Schmidtberger wrote 2 weeks ago: A few years ago my good high school friend Rachel passed away. Recently in apologetics I’ve t … more →
Donne for the Day
cland13 wrote 2 weeks ago: (In which we occasionally end our long day with a a bit of John Donne) Holy Sonnet V I am a little w … more →
(Seasonal Reblog) Stick a Pitchfork in Her, She's Donne
— 1 comment
anagramsci wrote 3 weeks ago: Man–I was really hoping to post something Hallowe’enish… but no dice… Howeve … more →
Circles
royalarbor wrote 3 weeks ago: If the paradigm shift can be forgiven, I am nervously returning to the world of thought. Perhaps I m … more →
Holy Sonnet X
jasonmanners wrote 3 weeks ago: Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so, For, th … more →
Holy Sonnet X
jasonmanners wrote 3 weeks ago: Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so, For, th … more →
who cleft the devil’s foot?
misconceptionoftheoyster wrote 1 month ago: Tonight is the peak of the Orionid meteor swarm. “At this shower’s peak observers can ty … more →
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main
soulangler wrote 1 month ago: No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if … more →
Batter My Heart...
— 3 comments
Travis Pickell wrote 1 month ago: BATTER my heart, three person’d God; for, you As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to … more →
Fruits of Autumn
bflynn wrote 1 month ago: I think I’ve been hearing it even more this year than usual: Can summer really be over? It seems lik … more →
National Poetry Day
— 1 comment
maryhoneyballmep wrote 1 month ago: Today is National Poetry Day. In a poll of favourite poets commissioned to mark the event, the sixt … more →
Climate Change Lesson #5: Send Not to Ask For Whom the Bell Tolls
Dan Farber wrote 1 month ago: This is the fifth in a series of short homilies on the lessons of climate change. As far back as Sie … more →
"Our ancestors seem to have been wonderfully delighted with these transformations of sex."
— 3 comments
Mark wrote 1 month ago: The character of Bellario [in John Fletcher's Philaster] must have been extremely popular in its day … more →
A Morsel from John Donne
— 1 comment
e4unity wrote 1 month ago: from Meditation 17, By John Donne Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris Perchance he for whom this be … more →
