The Cambridge Companion to John Donne Available to Purchase

John Donne has a secure place today as one of the greatest English poets, remarkable for his passionate treatment of love and religion and for the daring and imaginative force of his language. His sermons are also admired – utterances like “No man is an island” and “for whom the bell tolls” have become a familiar part of formal discourse. His importance in the world of literature and theology has recently come to the fore with the campaign in 2006 to raise money for the purchase by the National Portrait Gallery of a remarkable contemporary portrait of him as a...