Yazar: Robert Herrick

The founder of the Metaphysical Poets, a group that used oxymoronic imagery, John Donne was born into a Catholic family at a time when Catholics were being persecuted in England. After his own brother was killed for his beliefs Donne reluctantly joined the Anglican Church. The author of many prayerful poems then was forced to take a role in ministry in the Anglican Church when James I said it was the only place he could be employed. He was born in London, in 1572, and died there in 1631.