“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”
About John Donne
1572–31 March 1631
John Donne was born in London in 1572, probably in January, though the exact day remains uncertain, and he died in London on 31 March 1631. Few English writers have seemed so divided within themselves, or have turned division into such memorable art. He was at once a Catholic child in a Protestant state, an ambitious…