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John Donne ( DUN; 22 January – 31 March ) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England.

Under royal patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London (–).

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John donne literary works

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He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His poetical works are noted for their metaphorical and sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, and satires.

He is also known for his sermons.

Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques.

His early career was marked by poetry that bore immense kn