How to Read John Donnes Poems

Published: Oct. 13, 2020, 2 a.m.

b'Readings and interpretations of seven poems by the 17th-century metaphysical poet John Donne, namely "Elegy: To his Mistress Going to Bed"; "The Good Morrow"; "The Sun Rising"; "Valediction to his Book"; "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"; "The Canonization"; and "The Relic".\\nReadings are from Colin Burrow\\u2019s 2006 Penguin anthology Metaphysical Poetry. Supplemental glosses are from A. J. Smith\\u2019s erudite and wonderful Complete English Poems (Penguin, 1971); and from Donald R. Dickson\\u2019s John Donne\\u2019s Poetry (Norton, 2007).'