Donne, I: Thinking in the Sonnet

John Donne

The conversation begins with one person suggesting the intellectual power of Donne’s writing, exploiting the form of the sonnet as a composer might use the sonata form. A reading aloud of a “Holy Sonnet” with its “ravish me” related to Donne’s earlier, erotic poetry.

  • John Donne
  • 17th Century
  • English
  • Teasing, Flirting & Courting
  • Conversation
  • Teasing
  • Love
  • The Art of Poetry