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Donne, John, D.D.
(b. London, 1573; d. March 31st, 1631). “The Pseudo-Martyr” (1610); “Conclave Ignatii; or, Ignatius, his Conclave” (1611); “An Elegy on the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Henry” (1613); “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Severall Steps in my Sickness” (1624); “An Anatomy of the World” (1625); “Polydoron; or, a Miscellania of Morall, Philosophical, and Theological Sentences” (1631); “Death’s Duell” (1632). “A Sheaf of Miscellany Epigrams” (1632); “Juvenilia; or, Certaine Paradoxes and Problems” (1633); “Bia Thanatos” (1644); “Essays in Divinity” (1651); “Letters to Severall Persons of Honour” (1651), and other “Works,” collected in 1635, and republished with a “Memoir” by Dean Alford in 1839. “Sermons,” with a “Life” by Izaak Walton, in 1640–49.
