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Donne

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Donne  (dn), John 1572-1631.
English metaphysical poet and divine who served as chaplain to James I and as dean of Saint Paul's Cathedral (after 1621). His works include Divine Poems (1607).

Donne [dʌn]
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(Biographies / Donne, John (1573-1631) M, English, WRITING: poet, RELIGION: preacher) John. 1573-1631, English metaphysical poet and preacher. He wrote love and religious poems, sermons, epigrams, and elegies
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Noun1.DonneDonne - English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631)


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No general error evinces a more thorough confusion of ideas than the error of supposing Donne and Cowley metaphysical in the sense wherein Wordsworth and Coleridge are so.
Mais dites-leur que ce n'est pas pour les cierges que je leur donne, mais pour qu'ils se regalent de the.
"La fenetre fermee donne sur un jardin appartenant a un pensionnat de demoiselles," said he, "et les convenances exigent --enfin, vous comprenez--n'est-ce pas, monsieur?
 
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