About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Abraham Fleming, Abraham Hartwell, Alexander Neville (scholar), Andrew Bing, Anne Bacon, Arthur Gorges, Christopher Middleton (d. 1628), Daniel Featley, Edmund Prys, Edward Fairfax, Edward James (clergyman), Elizabeth Hoby, Francis Burleigh, Giles Thomson, Hadrian a Saravia, Henry Billingsley, Henry Lyte (botanist), Henry Parry (Bishop of Worcester), James Mabbe, Jeremiah Radcliffe, John Aglionby (divine), John Davies (Mallwyd), John Donne, John Duport, John Florio, John Harding (President of Magdalen), John Harmar, John Healey (translator), John Heigham, John Layfield (theologian), John Perrin (translator), John Rainolds, John Stockwood, Joshua Sylvester, Lancelot Andrewes, Leonard Hutten, Meredith Hanmer, Nehemiah Donnellan, Peter Allibond, Philemon Holland, Ralph Hutchinson (academic), Ralph Ravens, Richard Brett, Richard Clarke (priest), Richard Kilby, Richard Parry (bishop), Robert Dallington, Robert Tofte, Roger Fenton (clergyman), Samuel Ward (scholar), Theodore Bathurst, Thomas Harrison (translator), Thomas Holland (translator), Thomas Newton (poet), Thomas Ravis, Thomas Twyne, William Barlow (bishop of Lincoln), William Bedell, William Dakins, William Phiston, William Thorne (orientalist). Excerpt: John Donne ( ) (between 24 January and 19 June 1572 - 31 March 1631) was an English poet, satirist, lawyer and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, 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. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and..."
