KnowraJohn DonneLinked fromLinked fromThe 13 pages that link to John Donne, each with the reason it gives.All 13Broader topic 1Related 10Narrower topic 1Compared with 1T. S. EliotRelated: Eliot helped revive critical attention to Donne and the metaphysical poets.SonnetRelated: His devotional sonnets turn the form toward spiritual struggle and theological argument.Metaphysical poetryBroader topic: His poems became the central examples through which the style was later defined.Baroque literatureRelated: His poems reveal a distinctive English form of Baroque-era wit and complexity.Joseph BrodskyRelated: Brodsky admired Donne’s intellectual intensity and addressed him in a major elegy.Metaphysical conceitRelated: Donne’s poems became the central examples of the metaphysical conceit.George HerbertRelated: Donne’s intellectual lyric style offers a close comparison with Herbert’s devotional poems.Andrew MarvellCompared with: Donne’s earlier metaphysical poetry offers a major comparison for Marvell’s wit and compressed argument.Edward AlleynRelated: Donne preached at the 1616 ceremony marking the foundation of Alleyn’s College of God’s Gift.A. S. ByattRelated: Byatt’s scholarship included Donne, whose intricate verse suits her interest in learned literary forms.John BerrymanRelated: Berryman’s scholarship and poetic practice engaged closely with Donne’s wit and argument.Richard CrashawRelated: Donne’s ingenious conceits provide a useful comparison with Crashaw’s more sensuous religious imagery.Holy SonnetsNarrower topic: He wrote the sequence, bringing his argumentative style and spiritual anxieties into devotional verse.