John Donne - A family to support. Donne had to find what jobs he could. Ann had a child nearly every year. Donne says that they kept the wedding a secret, knowing that More had a ‘poor opinion’ of him and would ‘impossibilitate’ their plans. May 1, 1601.
As a student of metaphysics, his works use conceits, metaphors that refer to abstract ideas with concrete symbols -- the classic Donne conceit is "No man is an island." Education. In 1593, John Donne’s brother, Henry, was convicted of Catholic sympathies and died in prison soon after. After three years, John was accepted into the University of Cambridge for another three years. Weeks after the wedding, Donne asked his friend, the Earl of Northumberland, to deliver this awkward letter breaking the news to Sir George at Loseley.
John Donne was born in Bread Street, London in 1572 to a prosperous Roman Catholic family - a precarious thing at a time when anti-Catholic sentiment was rife in England. At age 25, Donne was given the position of private secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England. John Donne was a metaphysical poet. Eight years later, the bell did toll for Donne, who died of stomach cancer about a month after preaching his famous "Death's Duel" sermon. His poetry attempts to "go beyond" human sensibility into realms of conceptual thinking. John Donne was a famous English poet, satirist, lawyer and priest of his time. John Donne was believed to be homeschooled until he was ten or eleven years old. The incident led John to question his Catholic faith and inspired some of his best writing on religion. What made John and Ann Donne’s financial state worse was their growing family. Donne’s father died in January 1576, when young John was only four, and within six months Elizabeth Donne had married John Syminges, an Oxford-educated physician with a practice in London. In October 1584 Donne entered Hart Hall, Oxford, where he remained for about three years. In 1583, he studied at Hart Hall at Oxford University. It is for his poetic works, many with religious themes, that he is principally known today. His father, John Donne, was a well-to-do ironmonger and citizen of London. Signed letter from John Donne to Sir George More, 2 February 1602. Raised as a Roman Catholic in times of pervasive anti-Catholic sentiment, Donne was educated at home before attending Oxford and Cambridge; however, he did … John Donne, the English metaphysical poet and, after 1621, Dean of St. Paul’s, was a writer of sonnets, songs, elegies, satires, and sermons. Although he is best remembered as the founder of metaphysical school of poetry, he was also one of the foremost preachers of his time in the whole of England.