“All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one…” — John Donne

“All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.”

Presenting humanity as a single, meaningful work shaped by mortality · Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII

Death
Faith

John Donne

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…

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