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A Selection of Divine Poems by John DONNE (1572 - 1631) Genre(s): Single author, Christianity - Other Read by: Nathan in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - Corona, La (The Cycle of 'The Crown') 00:06:56 - 02 - Holy Sonnets I to XIX (aka 'The Divine Meditations') 00:24:53 - 03 - Cross, The 00:29:07 - 04 - 4 - Resurrection, Imperfect (or incomplete) 00:31:00 - 05 - Litany, The 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; Donne's 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 - Donne's writings demonstrate a mastery of poetry layered with metaphysical meaning and mystery: which continues to delight and challenge modern-day readers. Donne's 'divine poems' - the
