Metaphysical poets, selected poems Contents
- Social / political context
- Religious / philosophical context
- Literary context: ideas and innovations
- Aire and Angels
- A Hymn to God the Father
- A Hymn to God, my God, in my Sicknesse
- A Nocturnall upon St. Lucies day
- At the Round Earth's Imagin'd Corners
- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- Synopsis of Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- Commentary on Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- Language and tone in Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- Structure and versification in Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- Imagery and symbolism in Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- Themes in Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- A Valediction: of Weeping
- Batter my heart
- Death be not Proud
- Elegie XIX: Going to Bed
- Elegie XVI: On his Mistris
- Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
- Lovers' Infiniteness
- Oh my blacke Soule!
- Satyre III: 'On Religion'
- Show me Deare Christ
- Since She Whom I Lov'd
- Song: Goe, and catche a falling starre
- The Anniversarie
- The Dreame
- The Extasie
- The Flea
- The Good-morrow
- The Sunne Rising
- This is my playes last scene
- Twicknam Garden
- What if this present
- Aaron
- Affliction I
- Death
- Discipline
- Easter Wings
- Jordan I
- Jordan II
- Life
- Love II
- Man
- Prayer I
- Redemption
- The Church-floore
- The Collar
- Vertue
- Hymn in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
- Hymn to St Teresa
- St Mary Magdalene, or the Weeper
- To the Countesse of Denbigh
- Ascension - Hymn
- Man
- Regeneration
- The Night
- The Retreate
- The Water-fall
- A Dialogue between Soul and Body
- On a Drop of Dew
- The Coronet
- The Definition of Love
- The Garden
- The Mower Against Gardens
- The Mower to the Glo-Worms
- The Mower's Song
- The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Faun
- The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
- To his Coy Mistress
- Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax
- An Elegie upon the Death of the Deane of Paul's Dr John Donne
- To a Lady that Desired I would Love her
Other resources
Readings
John Donne: Sir Richard Burton reads The Love Poems of John Donne on Audio CD
Musical Settings
John Donne:
Malcolm Arnold: Two John Donne Songs
Benjamin Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op.35
John Mitchell: Two songs from La Corona (‘Moist with one drop'; Everlasting Day)
(see http://abm_enterprises.net/mp3.html)
Guillaume Tessier and others: Lovesongs and Sonnets of John Donne and Sir Phillip Sidney
George Herbert:
Hymns, to be found in many hymn-books: Praise (‘King of glory, King of peace'); The Elixir
(‘Teach me my God and King'); Let all the World.
Let all the World has been a very popular poem to set, having been done by Lennox Berkeley, Bill Ives, Randall Thompson, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Judith Weir.
Bill Ives: Praise; Let all the World; Listen,sweet dove.
R. Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
Richard Crashaw:
Gerald Finzi: Hymn to the Blessed Sacrament
Rodney Lister: Full Tide; Love's Delicious Fruit
Edmund Rubbra: Sound Forth, Celestial Organs
R. Vaughan Williams: Come Love, Come Lord
Henry Vaughan:
Anderson: Peace
Benjamin Britten: Waters Above
Edward Elgar: The Shower; The Fountain
Michael Head: ‘O let no star compare with thee'
Parry: ‘My soul, there is a country'
Edmund Rubbra: The Morning Watch
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