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JOHN DONNE (1573–1631)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 417 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN DONNE (1573–1631)  ,
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English poet and divine of the reign of James I., was born in 1573 in the parish of St Nicholas Olave, in the city of
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London . His
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father was a wealthy merchant, who next
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year became
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warden of the
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Company of Ironmongers, but died early in 1576 . Donne's parents were Catholics, and his
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mother, Elizabeth Heywood, was directly descended from the
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sister of the
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great
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Sir Thomas More; she was the daughter of John Heywood the epigrammatist . As a child, Donne's precocity was such that it was said of him that " this age hath brought forth another
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Pico della
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Mirandola." He entered Hart Hall, Oxford, in
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October 1584, and
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left it in 1587, proceeding for a time to Cambridge, where he took his degree: At Oxford he began his friendship with Henry Wotton, and at Cambridge, probably, with Christopher Brooke .

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