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John Donne 1572-1631

Dr. Donne
Jack
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Dramatic monologue

Conceit
Paradox
Jack
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1590sWrote Songs and Sonnets 1598 Became an
Anglican 1598 Secretary to Thomas Egerton
1601 Secret marriage to Ann More 1615 Became
an Anglican priest 1617 Ann died of
childbirth 1618-? Wrote Holy Sonnets 1631 Death
of Donne 1633 Publication of Poems
Dr. Donne
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Timeline 1649 Execution of Charles
I Commonwealth and Protectorate led by Oliver
Cromwell 1660 Restoration of Charles II

• Education
• Cambridge
• Reading
• Travel

• Prose and Politics
• For Divorce
• Against the
• Monarchy

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• Education
• Cambridge
• Reading
• Travel

• Prose and Politics
• For Divorce
• Against the
• Monarchy

• Poetry
• Paradise Lost
• Paradise
• Regained

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Characteristics of an Epic

• Recounts the deeds of a hero
• Elevated style of writing
• Invocation of the muse
• Statement of theme
• In medias res
• Formal speeches
• Catalogues (usually of warriors)

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In the beginning . . . the heavns and
earth Rose out of Chaos (I. 9-10).
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Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming
from th ethereal sky (I. 44-45).
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The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heavn of Hell, a Hell of Heavn
(I. 254-255).
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He above the rest In shape and gesture
proudly eminent Stood like a towr (I.
589-591).
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Pandemonium
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Hail holy light, offspring of heavn
first-born, Or of th Eternal coeternal beam
May I express thee unblamed? (III. 1-3)
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I made him just and
right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to
fall (III. 98-99).
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Which way I fly is Hell myself am Hell
(IV. 75).
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So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest
pair / That ever since in loves embraces met
(IV. 321-322).
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A Visit with Raphael
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Book IX
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The Fall and Expulsion from Paradise
by Michelangelo
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He hears on all sides, from innumerable
tongues A dismal universal hiss (X. 506-508)
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Asking for Forgiveness
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The Expulsion from Paradise by Masaccio
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The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise by
Benjamin West