John Donne

Reflexiones imperecederas sobre la condición humana, la vida y la muerte.John Donne tenía 52 años cuando escribió esta obra de una actualidad y una bellezasorprendentes. Tras un ataque de tifus, cayó

Considerado desde su revalorización en el siglo XX por poetas de la importancia de T. S. Eliot o William Butler Yeats como una de las máximas figuras de la poesía en lengua inglesa, John Donne (1572-1631) fue coetaneo de Shakespeare, de Cervantes y del Siglo de Oro español, del que parece fue buen conocedor. En su poesia cultivo desde temas amorosos y mundanos hasta asuntos religiosos o morales. Suyos son poemas tan famosos como Al acostarse su amada, El aniversario, El extasis, La pulga o El sol naciente, todos ellos incluidos en esta seleccion, asi como el fragmento de Oraciones versificado con posterioridad y del que provienen las conocidas expresiones por quien doblan las campanas y ningun hombre es una isla.Version y seleccion de Antonio Rivero TaravilloConsiderado desde su revalorización en el siglo XX por poetas de la importancia de T. S. Eliot o William Butler Yeats como una de las máximas figuras de la poesía en lengua inglesa, John Donne (1572-1631) fue coetaneo de Shakespeare, de Cervantes y del Siglo de Oro español, del que parece fue buen conocedor. En su poesia cultivo desde temas amorosos y mundanos hasta asuntos religiosos o morales. Suyos son poemas tan famosos como Al acostarse su amada, El aniversario, El extasis, La pulga o El sol naciente, todos ellos incluidos en esta seleccion, asi como el fragmento de Oraciones versificado con posterioridad y del que provienen las conocidas expresiones por quien doblan las campanas y ningun hombre es una isla.Version y seleccion de Antonio Rivero Taravillo

John Donne tenía 52 años cuando escribió esta obra de una actualidad y una belleza sorprendentes. Tras un ataque de tifus, cayó gravemente enfermo en 1623 y, a raíz del padecimiento que ello le supuso, escribio sus Meditaciones. Entre ellas se encuentra la numero 17, conocida por servir de base al titulo de la novela de Hemingway Por quien doblan las campanas. La muerte, el amor y la presencia de Dios conforman el andamiaje de estas meditaciones, pero cada una de ellas ejerce su fuerza de una manera distinta, poetica y profunda.Este libro es un ejercicio de observacion casi empirico que huye de la descripcion fisiologica de la enfermedad y alcanza la metafisica.

"Nenhum homem é uma ilha, inteiramente isolado; todo homem é um pedaço de um continente, uma parte de um todo. Se um torrão de terra for levado pelas águas até o mar, a Europa fica diminuída, como se

Per la prima volta tradotti in italiano tutti gli epigrammi del grande poeta metafisico inglese John Donne, insieme a una nuova versione delle sue poesie sacre e profane. Uno scritto di Virginia Woolf del 1913, riprodotto all'inizio del libro, conduce il lettore, con fine sensibilita, dentro la poesia di Donne. Completano il volume un'introduzione di Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), e un apparato di note che risultano indispensabili per districarsi nel mare di riferimenti religiosi del poeta. Testo originale a fronte.

"Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions" is a prose work by the English metaphysical poet and cleric in the Church of England John Donne. It covers death, rebirth and the Elizabethan concept of sickness as a visit from God, reflecting internal sinfulness. Donne wrote the Devotions as he recovered from a serious but unknown illness believed to be relapsing fever or typhus. Having come close to death, he described the illness he had suffered from and his thoughts throughout his recovery. The Devotions is divided into 23 parts, each consisting of 3 sub-sections, called the meditation, the "expostulation and a prayer."Deaths Duel" is the final sermon delivered by John Donne as the Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral. The sermon was likely written out in full prior to Donne preaching it as it was subsequently prepared for publication. The act of preaching exhausted Donne. To those he had preached to, it seemed as though he had delivered his own death sermon

John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England.He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donnes 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.

In the tumultuous world of 16th-century England, John Donnes Satires emerge as a searing indictment of societys vices and follies. With biting wit and incisive language, Donne skewers the hypocrisy, greed, and vanity that pervade the human condition.From the corrupt court to the self-serving clergy, Donnes targets are mercilessly exposed. His satires lay bare the absurdity of human ambition, the emptiness of material wealth, and the corrosive effects of envy and pride. Through his sharp observations and masterful use of language, Donne invites us to confront our own shortcomings and question the values that shape our world.

In the twilight of Good Friday, 1613, a solitary figure embarks on a perilous journey westward. John Donne, the renowned poet and preacher, saddles up for a transformative ride that will test his faith, challenge his beliefs, and forever alter the course of his life. As he traverses the rugged landscapes of England, Donne grapples with profound questions of mortality, redemption, and the nature of God. Through his encounters with diverse characters and the evocative beauty of the natural world, Donnes journey becomes a poignant exploration of the human condition and the enduring power of hope amidst adversity.

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English theologian and writer John Donne, Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in London. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness. The work consists of twenty-three parts describing each stage of the sickness. Each part is further divided into a Meditation, an Expostulation , and a Prayer. The work is an excellent example of seventeenth century English spirituality and sometimes feels a bit dated. Yet much solid nourishment can be found. Deaths Duel is Donnes last sermon prepared for presentation before the King during Lent; it is commonly seen as Donnes own funeral oration. The biographical material is from Izaak Waltons Lives. The most famous part of the Devotions is number XVII , containing these lines: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were: any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. /p

John Donne was an English Jacobean preacher, sometime lawyer, later in life a Member of Parliament and Royal Chaplain. Marrying for love against the wishes of his influential father-in-law; Donnes career was cast into shadow: forcing him to support his wife, Anne, as best he might under a specter of unforgiving penury. Despite such hardships - perhaps because of them - Donnes writings demonstrate a mastery of poetry layered with metaphysical meaning and mystery: which continues to delight and challenge modern-day readers. Donnes "divine poems" - the focus of this collection - present profound theological insights using absorbing allegories and beautiful imagery.At the end of Donnes life - as his health deteriorated under illnesses of increasing severity - his poetry served him as: distraction, consolation, and even "public confession". With them, Donne cheerfully but soberly faces the limits of his own mortality: and contemplates the mysteries that lie beyond the grave.

The Holy Sonnets—also known as the Divine Meditations or Divine Sonnets—are a series of nineteen poems by the English poet John Donne . The sonnets were first published in 1633—two years after Donnes

"Donnes StyleIn John Donnes day, a satire was such a poem as a satyr might compose. Satyrs were rough, savage creatures in Greek mythology, human to the waist but goat from there down. That is the reason that Donnes style in these poems exceeds his normal difficulty in syntax, vocabulary, thought, and meter. His age enjoyed untangling such puzzles, and some poets cultivated obscurity as an art, called asprezza. Wordplay like while bellows pant below (Satyre 2), where the same syllables, stressed differently, produce two different words almost side by side, entertained them.An acoustical analogue to obscurity, Donnes rhymes are often deliberately lame, while his rhythms nearly defy scansion and yet refuse to become mere prose. By keeping the drum beat just barely audible, he makes us feel that we are stumbling, out of stepneither marching nor merely walking.Why was this abuse of the reader enjoyable? Perhaps for the same reason that grafitti appeals to some people. At first glance Donne appears lax, but in fact he is naughty; not undisciplined but rebellious; he does not fail to abide by the rules but rather gives the impression of breaking them.MetempsychosisThe poem appears to be incomplete, its First Song having no counterpart, no Second Song. Similarly its promise to end by identifying what celebrity the soul in question now inhabits is never fulfilled. On the contrary, the poems initial epic pretentions founder at the second generation of mankind rather than tracing human history from the Garden of Eden to modern England, as was proposed. In view of the authors mock-heroic tone, however, the poems apparent incompletion may be part of the satire, so it does no harm to suppose it as complete as necessary to accomplish its purpose.What it accomplishes is to demonstrate, by means of the Pythagorean doctrine of the transmigration of souls, the depravity of the object of the satire (identity unknown but perhaps easily guessed by Donnes audience). According to this doctrine, also called metempsychosis, the various guises that a soul takes in its travels are rewards or punishments for its conduct in each of its incarnations. It is debatable whether this process always leads to purification. In this poem it appears rather to be simple unfolding, dilation, the full realization of the souls potential. This soul has an appalling capacity for evil, beginning ominously as the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and never rising higher than the moral neutrality of a fish. (A modern reader unfamiliar with The Bhagavad Gita may rely on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as background to the concept of the dilation and degradation of a soul.)The style of the poem reflects the theme of shape-changing, for Donne loves to employ words multiple senses in close proximity: . . . Make my darke heavy Poem light, and light . . . [not dark + not heavy]. . . to heare / Whose story, with long patience you will long . . . [adjective + verb]. . . Her, her fates threw . . . [object of verb + possessive]. . . Her sinne had now brought in infirmities . . . [verbal particle + prefix]. . . Ill steward of himself, himselfe in three yeares ends. . . . [object of preposition + object of verb]. . . Yet them all these unkinde kinds feed upon . . . [adjective + noun]Such wordplay is common in Donnes satires, but in a poem chronicling the exploits of fishes, a sparrow, a wolf, and a mouseall being the same individual in different formsit seems especially appropriate. - Summary by Thomas Copeland"