notes for Donne presentation later
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timepiececlockFrom: http://faculty.acu.edu/~appletonl/mb1/donne.htm
Major dates and events: (1572-1631)
1572: Birth; educated as a Catholic
1584: Hart Hall, Oxford
1588: Cambridge
1591-92: Lincoln's Inn (where lawyers got their training; Donne known for his worldly ways)
1596: Sails with Raleigh and Essex to Cadiz
1597: Sails with Essex to the Azores
1598: Becomes an Anglican
1598: Private secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton
1601: Secret marriage to Egerton's niece, Ann More; lived off friends and patrons (especially Magdalen Herbert and Robert Drury) for 15 years
1615: Becomes an Anglican priest
1621: Appointed dean of St. Paul's Cathedral
1631: dies
1633: Publication of Poems
Obsessed with the idea of death, Donne had a portrait painted of himself dressed in his burial shroud, a memento mori (reminder of death), which he had placed so he could see it as he lay on his deathbed.
Other good poem:
WITCHCRAFT BY A PICTURE
I fix mine eye on thine, and there
Pity my picture burning in thine eye ;
My picture drown'd in a transparent tear,
When I look lower I espy ;
Hadst thou the wicked skill
By pictures made and marr'd, to kill,
How many ways mightst thou perform thy will?
But now I've drunk thy sweet salt tears,
And though thou pour more, I'll depart ;
My picture vanished, vanish all fears
That I can be endamaged by that art ;
Though thou retain of me
One picture more, yet that will be,
Being in thine own heart, from all malice free.
Information from : http://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/alumni/donne.htm
From 1602 to 1606 the poet and his family lived in the house of Donne's friend Sir Francis Woolley at Pyrford, where Donne, in the hope of resuming his career, studied canon and civil law. He went to the continent for a year as travelling companion to Sir Walter Chute and returned to the vicinity of London in 1606, taking a small house at Mitcham. He enjoyed the patronage of the countesses of Bedford and Huntingdon and Sir Robert Drury but they could do nothing to advance his public career. Fortunately Sir George More relented sufficiently to pay his daughter's dowry in 1608 and the household enjoyed a little ease. Donne accompanied Sir Robert Drury abroad in 1611 and on his return was able to move his household back to London. He wrote for his patrons and assisted his friend Thomas Morton, Dean of Gloucester, in his controversies with the Catholics, and it was Morton who perceived that the best way forward for Donne would be for him to enter the Church. But Donne had not given up hope of advancement in public life - that was what he-really wanted. Yet the secular world apparently had no use for him, whereas his religious writings, Pseudo-Martyr and Ignatius his Conclave, impressed King James. Meanwhile Donne was lucky in the patronage of the king's favourite, Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester, of Lord Hay, and of Lord Ellesmere (Egerton, now elevated and in a forgiving mood) and with their support he approached the king. The king made it clear that he wanted Donne in the Church and the poet submitted, taking holy orders in 1615.
Ironically, Donne now found himself at the centre of affairs. He was made a royal chaplain and reader in divinity at Lincoln's Inn and sent on a diplomatic mission to Germany with Viscount Doncaster. His sermons made him famous and attracted large crowds, and King James made him Dean of St. Paul's in 1621. Sadly, his Anne enjoyed only two years of Donne's eminence; she died in 1617, having borne 12 children, 7 of whom survived.
Donne suffered a severe illness in 1623 and during his recovery began to write his Devotions, which was an acknowledgement of mortality, but he returned to his work in 1624 as vicar of St Dunstan's-in-the-West, where one of his admiring parishioners was Izaak Walton. Donne was beginning to run down; his health was precarious by 1630 and on the first Friday of Lent 1631 he preached his last sermon, Death's Duell, in the presence of King Charles 1; he knew that he was dying. The end came on 31 March 1631.
Notes on Life and Works, From: http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet98.html
All the poems by Donne included here, except "The First Anniversary" (1611) and "The Second Anniversary" (1612), were first published, after Donne's death, in the 1633 or 1635 editions of Poems, by J. D. Most of the non-religious poems may have been written by the time he was twenty-five.
Biographical information
Given name: John
Family name: Donne
Birth date: 1572
Death date: 31 March 1631
Nationality: English
Family relations
father: John Donne
mother: Elizabeth Donne
wife: Anne Donne (from December 1600)
son: George Donne
son: John Donne
daughter: Constance Alleyn Harvey
daughter: Margaret Bowles
daughter: Elizabeth Donne
daughter: Bridget Gardiner
Languages
English
French
Italian
Spanish
Education
Hart Hall, Oxford: 23 October 1584
Thavies Inn: 1591
Lincoln's Inn: 6 May 1592
Religions
Anglican
Roman Catholic: 1573
Honours
M.A., Oxford: 10 October 1610
Gold medal, commemoration of the Synod of Dort: 19 December 1619
Patron: Lucy Harrington, Countess of Bedford
Literary period: Seventeenth century
Occupation: Divine
Residences
Mitcham
London: 1573
Pyrford: 1600 to 1604
Peckham: 1604
Illness: Typhoid fever: November 1623
Buried at: St. Paul's
First RPO edition: 1997
From: http://www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/donne.htm
After Cambridge, Donne studied law at Lincoln's Inn in London. His faith was badly shaken when his younger brother Henry died in prison, where he had been sent for sheltering a Catholic priest. Donne's first literary work, Satires, was written during this period. This was followed by Songs and Sonnets. a collection of love poems that enjoyed considerable success through private circulation.
….
Finally, in 1609, George More was induced to relent and pay his daughter's dowry. In the meantime Donne worked as a lawyer, and produced Divine Poems (1607).
…
Donne's final break with his Catholic past came with the publication of Pseudo-Martyr (1610) and Ignatius his Conclave. These works won him the favour of King James, who pressured him to take Anglican orders. Donne reluctantly agreed, and in 1615 he was appointed Royal Chaplain, and the following year he gained the post of Reader in Divinity at Lincoln's Inn. There his fierce wit and learning made Donne one of the popular preachers of his day.
Then in 1617 Anne Donne died in giving birth to the couple's 12th child. Her death affected Donne greatly, though he continued to write, notably Holy Sonnets (1618).
In 1621 Donne was appointed Dean of St. Paul's, a post he held for the remainder of his life. In his final years Donne's poems reflect an obsession with his own death, which came on March 31, 1631.
Major dates and events: (1572-1631)
1572: Birth; educated as a Catholic
1584: Hart Hall, Oxford
1588: Cambridge
1591-92: Lincoln's Inn (where lawyers got their training; Donne known for his worldly ways)
1596: Sails with Raleigh and Essex to Cadiz
1597: Sails with Essex to the Azores
1598: Becomes an Anglican
1598: Private secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton
1601: Secret marriage to Egerton's niece, Ann More; lived off friends and patrons (especially Magdalen Herbert and Robert Drury) for 15 years
1615: Becomes an Anglican priest
1621: Appointed dean of St. Paul's Cathedral
1631: dies
1633: Publication of Poems
Obsessed with the idea of death, Donne had a portrait painted of himself dressed in his burial shroud, a memento mori (reminder of death), which he had placed so he could see it as he lay on his deathbed.
Other good poem:
WITCHCRAFT BY A PICTURE
I fix mine eye on thine, and there
Pity my picture burning in thine eye ;
My picture drown'd in a transparent tear,
When I look lower I espy ;
Hadst thou the wicked skill
By pictures made and marr'd, to kill,
How many ways mightst thou perform thy will?
But now I've drunk thy sweet salt tears,
And though thou pour more, I'll depart ;
My picture vanished, vanish all fears
That I can be endamaged by that art ;
Though thou retain of me
One picture more, yet that will be,
Being in thine own heart, from all malice free.
Information from : http://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/alumni/donne.htm
From 1602 to 1606 the poet and his family lived in the house of Donne's friend Sir Francis Woolley at Pyrford, where Donne, in the hope of resuming his career, studied canon and civil law. He went to the continent for a year as travelling companion to Sir Walter Chute and returned to the vicinity of London in 1606, taking a small house at Mitcham. He enjoyed the patronage of the countesses of Bedford and Huntingdon and Sir Robert Drury but they could do nothing to advance his public career. Fortunately Sir George More relented sufficiently to pay his daughter's dowry in 1608 and the household enjoyed a little ease. Donne accompanied Sir Robert Drury abroad in 1611 and on his return was able to move his household back to London. He wrote for his patrons and assisted his friend Thomas Morton, Dean of Gloucester, in his controversies with the Catholics, and it was Morton who perceived that the best way forward for Donne would be for him to enter the Church. But Donne had not given up hope of advancement in public life - that was what he-really wanted. Yet the secular world apparently had no use for him, whereas his religious writings, Pseudo-Martyr and Ignatius his Conclave, impressed King James. Meanwhile Donne was lucky in the patronage of the king's favourite, Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester, of Lord Hay, and of Lord Ellesmere (Egerton, now elevated and in a forgiving mood) and with their support he approached the king. The king made it clear that he wanted Donne in the Church and the poet submitted, taking holy orders in 1615.
Ironically, Donne now found himself at the centre of affairs. He was made a royal chaplain and reader in divinity at Lincoln's Inn and sent on a diplomatic mission to Germany with Viscount Doncaster. His sermons made him famous and attracted large crowds, and King James made him Dean of St. Paul's in 1621. Sadly, his Anne enjoyed only two years of Donne's eminence; she died in 1617, having borne 12 children, 7 of whom survived.
Donne suffered a severe illness in 1623 and during his recovery began to write his Devotions, which was an acknowledgement of mortality, but he returned to his work in 1624 as vicar of St Dunstan's-in-the-West, where one of his admiring parishioners was Izaak Walton. Donne was beginning to run down; his health was precarious by 1630 and on the first Friday of Lent 1631 he preached his last sermon, Death's Duell, in the presence of King Charles 1; he knew that he was dying. The end came on 31 March 1631.
Notes on Life and Works, From: http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet98.html
All the poems by Donne included here, except "The First Anniversary" (1611) and "The Second Anniversary" (1612), were first published, after Donne's death, in the 1633 or 1635 editions of Poems, by J. D. Most of the non-religious poems may have been written by the time he was twenty-five.
Biographical information
Given name: John
Family name: Donne
Birth date: 1572
Death date: 31 March 1631
Nationality: English
Family relations
father: John Donne
mother: Elizabeth Donne
wife: Anne Donne (from December 1600)
son: George Donne
son: John Donne
daughter: Constance Alleyn Harvey
daughter: Margaret Bowles
daughter: Elizabeth Donne
daughter: Bridget Gardiner
Languages
English
French
Italian
Spanish
Education
Hart Hall, Oxford: 23 October 1584
Thavies Inn: 1591
Lincoln's Inn: 6 May 1592
Religions
Anglican
Roman Catholic: 1573
Honours
M.A., Oxford: 10 October 1610
Gold medal, commemoration of the Synod of Dort: 19 December 1619
Patron: Lucy Harrington, Countess of Bedford
Literary period: Seventeenth century
Occupation: Divine
Residences
Mitcham
London: 1573
Pyrford: 1600 to 1604
Peckham: 1604
Illness: Typhoid fever: November 1623
Buried at: St. Paul's
First RPO edition: 1997
From: http://www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/donne.htm
After Cambridge, Donne studied law at Lincoln's Inn in London. His faith was badly shaken when his younger brother Henry died in prison, where he had been sent for sheltering a Catholic priest. Donne's first literary work, Satires, was written during this period. This was followed by Songs and Sonnets. a collection of love poems that enjoyed considerable success through private circulation.
….
Finally, in 1609, George More was induced to relent and pay his daughter's dowry. In the meantime Donne worked as a lawyer, and produced Divine Poems (1607).
…
Donne's final break with his Catholic past came with the publication of Pseudo-Martyr (1610) and Ignatius his Conclave. These works won him the favour of King James, who pressured him to take Anglican orders. Donne reluctantly agreed, and in 1615 he was appointed Royal Chaplain, and the following year he gained the post of Reader in Divinity at Lincoln's Inn. There his fierce wit and learning made Donne one of the popular preachers of his day.
Then in 1617 Anne Donne died in giving birth to the couple's 12th child. Her death affected Donne greatly, though he continued to write, notably Holy Sonnets (1618).
In 1621 Donne was appointed Dean of St. Paul's, a post he held for the remainder of his life. In his final years Donne's poems reflect an obsession with his own death, which came on March 31, 1631.
