Death be not proud poem & Absalom and Achitophel poem
Name :parmar Nidhi Shamjibhai Semester : M. A Part 1 Paper : literature of the Elizabethan and Restoration period. (Paper no 101) ~Class Assignment : Q ~ write a note on 'death be not proud' poem by John donne. Introduction : Sonnet X", also known by its opening words as "Death Be Not Proud", is a fourteen-line poem, or sonnet, by English poet John Donne (1572–1631), one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets group of seventeenth-century English literature. Written between February and August 1609, it was first published posthumously in 1633. The poem is included as one of the nineteen sonnets that comprise Donne's Holy Sonnets or Divine Meditations, among his best-known works. ∆ poem : ∆ About the poet : John Donne (1572-1631) is remembered as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets. His works display a unique mixture of intellectual wit, passionate emotion, and religious devotion. Donne's style is ...