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Born in January 22, 1572 / Died in March 31, 1631 / United Kingdom / English

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  • Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Dr. John Donne: Dean of St. Paul's, fourth edition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973).
  • John R. Roberts, John Donne: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1912-1967 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1973).
  • A. J. Smith, ed., John Donne: The Critical Heritage (London & Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975).
  • Roberts, John Donne: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1968-1978 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1982).
  • Izaak Walton, The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Robert Sanderson (London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Richard Marriott, 1670)--the Life of Dr. John Donne first appeared in the 1640 edition of Donne's LXXX Sermons.
  • Augustus Jessopp, John Donne, Sometime Dean of St. Paul's A.D. 1621-1631 (London: Methuen, 1897).
  • Sir Edmund Gosse, The Life and Letters of John Donne, 2 volumes (London: Heinemann, 1899).
  • Hugh I'Anson Fausset, John Donne: A Study in Discord (London: Cape, 1924; New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1925).
  • R. C. Bald, Donne and the Drurys (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959).
  • Edward LeComte, Grace to a Witty Sinner: A Life of John Donne (New York: Walker, 1965).
  • Bald, John Donne: A Life (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970).
  • N. J. C. Andreasen, John Donne: Conservative Revolutionary (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967).
  • John Bailey, "The Sermons of a Poet," Quarterly Review, 463 (April 1920): 317-328.
  • R. C. Bald, Donne's Influence in English Literature (Morpeth, U.K.: St. John's College Press, 1932).
  • Joan Bennett, Four Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1934).
  • Louis I. Bredvold, "The Naturalism of Donne in Relation to Some Renaissance Traditions," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 22, no. 4 (1923): 471-502.
  • Douglas Bush, English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1945).
  • John Carey, John Donne: Life, Mind and Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981).
  • Dwight Cathcart, Doubting Conscience: Donne and the Poetry of Moral Argument (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1975).
  • Charles Monroe Coffin, John Donne and the New Philosophy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1937).
  • Rosalie L. Colie, Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966).
  • Patrick Cruttwell, The Shakespearean Moment and Its Place in the Poetry of the 17th Century (London: Chatto & Windus, 1954).
  • Joseph E. Duncan, The Revival of Metaphysical Poetry: The History of a Style, 1800 to the Present (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1959).
  • T. S. Eliot, "The Metaphysical Poets," Times Literary Supplement, 20 October 1921, pp. 669-670.
  • William Empson, "Donne the Space Man," Kenyon Review, 19 (Summer 1957): 337-399.
  • Barbara Everett, Donne: A London Poet (London: Oxford University Press, 1972).
  • Anne Ferry, All in War with Time: Love Poetry of Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Marvell (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975).
  • Ferry, The "Inward" Language: Sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983).
  • Peter Amadeus Fiore, ed., Just So Much Honor: Essays Commemorating the Four-Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of John Donne (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1972).
  • Dennis Flynn, "Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility," English Literary Renaissance, 19 (Autumn 1989): 305-323.
  • Flynn, "Donne's Catholicism," Recusant History, 13 (April 1975): 1-17; (April 1976): 178-195.
  • Helen Gardner, ed., John Donne: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962).
  • K. W. Gransden, John Donne (London & New York: Longmans, Green, 1954).
  • Donald L. Guss, John Donne, Petrarchist (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1966).
  • M. Thomas Hester, Kinde Pitty and Brave Scorn: John Donne's Satyres (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1982).
  • Hester and R. V. Young, Jr., eds., John Donne Journal, 1982- .
  • Merritt Y. Hughes, "Kidnapping Donne," University of California Publications in English, 4 (1934): 61-89.
  • Richard E. Hughes, The Progress of the Soul: The Interior Career of John Donne (New York: William Morrow, 1968).
  • Clay Hunt, Donne's Poetry: Essays in Literary Analysis (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954).
  • Robert S. Jackson, John Donne's Christian Vocation (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1970).
  • Frank Kermode, "Dissociation of Sensibility," Kenyon Review, 19 (Spring 1957): 169-194.
  • F. R. Leavis, "The Influence of Donne on Modern Poetry," Bookman, 79 (March 1931): 346-347.
  • Pierre Legouis, Donne the Craftsman (Paris: Didier, 1928).
  • J. B. Leishman, The Monarch of Wit: An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne (London: Hutchinson University Library, 1951).
  • C. S. Lewis, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954).
  • Anthony Low, Love's Architecture: Devotional Modes in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry (New York: New York University Press, 1978).
  • M. M. Mahood, Poetry and Humanism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950).
  • Arthur F. Marotti, John Donne, Coterie Poet (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986).
  • Louis L. Martz, The Poetry of Meditation: A Study in English Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954).
  • Marjorie Hope Nicolson, The Breaking of the Circle: Studies in the Effect of the "New Science" upon Seventeenth Century Poetry (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1950).
  • David Novarr, The Disinterred Muse: Donne's Texts and Contexts (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1980).
  • Douglas L. Peterson, The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967).
  • Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Studies in Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920), pp. 96-117.
  • John R. Roberts, ed., Essential Articles for the Study of John Donne's Poetry (Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1975).
  • Murray Roston, The Soul of Wit: A Study of John Donne (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974).
  • Terry G. Sherwood, Fulfilling the Circle: A Study of John Donne's Thought (Toronto & Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1984).
  • Evelyn M. Simpson, A Study of the Prose Works of John Donne (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924).
  • Thomas O. Sloane, Donne, Milton, and the End of Humanist Rhetoric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).
  • A. J. Smith, ed., John Donne: Essays in Celebration (London: Methuen, 1972).
  • Smith, The Metaphysics of Love: Studies in Renaissance Love Poetry from Dante to Milton (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
  • James Smith, "On Metaphysical Poetry," Scrutiny, 2 (December 1933): 222-239.
  • Theodore Spencer, ed., A Garland for John Donne, 1631-1931 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1931).
  • Arnold Stein, John Donne's Lyrics: The Eloquence of Action (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1962).
  • Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, eds., The Eagle and the Dove: Reassessing John Donne (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986).
  • Edward W. Tayler, Donne's Idea of a Woman: Structure and Meaning in "The Anniversaries" (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991).
  • Rosemond Tuve, Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery: Renaissance Poetic and Twentieth-Century Critics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947).
  • Leonard Unger, Donne's Poetry and Modern Criticism (Chicago: Regnery, 1950).
  • Helen C. White, The Metaphysical Poets: A Study in Religious Experience (New York: Macmillan, 1936).
  • Baird W. Whitlock, "Donne's University Years," English Studies, 43 (February 1962): 1-20.
  • George Williamson, The Donne Tradition: A Study in English Poetry from Donne to the Death of Cowley (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1930).
  • Yvor Winters, "The 16th Century Lyric in England: A Critical and Historical Reinterpretation," Poetry, 53 (February 1939): 258-272.