The Cambridge Companion to John Donne.

* John Donne

The term " heroic couplet " is sometimes reserved for couplets that are largely closed and self-contained, as opposed to the enjambed couplets of poets like John Donne.

The libretto of Doctor Atomic by Peter Sellars draws on original source material, including personal memoirs, recorded interviews, technical manuals of nuclear physics, declassified government documents, and the poetry of the Bhagavad Gita, John Donne, Charles Baudelaire, and Muriel Rukeyser.

* John Donne pointed to the humanoid shape of the mandrake root in his poem Song ( Go And Catch A Falling Star ).

In English literature, Mannerism is commonly identified with the qualities of the " Metaphysical " poets of whom the most famous is John Donne.

The witty sally of a Baroque writer, John Dryden, against the verse of Donne in the previous generation, affords a concise contrast between Baroque and Mannerist aims in the arts:

A grandchild of the Scudamores was Sir John Donne of Kidwelly, a successful Yorkist courtier, diplomat and soldier, who after 1485 made an accommodation with his fellow Welshman, Henry VII.

Notable poets in this genre include John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Antonio Machado.

Puns and other forms of word play have been used by many famous writers, such as Alexander Pope, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Robert Bloch, Lewis Carroll, John Donne, and William Shakespeare, who is estimated to have used over 3, 000 puns in his plays.

In the poem A Hymn to God the Father, John Donne, married to Anne More, reportedly puns repeatedly: " Son / sun " in the second quoted line, and two compound puns on " Donne / done " and " More / more ".

The Jacobean poet John Donne was another notable Englishman who was born into a recusant Catholic family.

Bradbury admitted he stopped reading genre books in his twenties and embraced a broad field of literature that included Alexander Pope and poet John Donne.

In 1611 the English poet, John Donne, wrote:

** John Donne, English writer and prelate ( d. 1631 )

* John Donne of England ( 1571 ?– 1631 ), Anglican priest, poet, and philosopher

** John Donne is appointed as Reader in Divinity at his old inn of court, Lincoln's Inn.

* March 31 – John Donne, English writer and prelate ( b. 1572 )

During this period he declined to meet a Cambridge academic colleague, Glyn Daniel, for a drink or dinner as he was devoting his limited leisure time to studying the poet John Donne.

In February 1477, he was sent by the Yorkist King Edward IV, together with Sir John Donne, as ambassador to the French court.

* Mary Novik: Conceit, a novel about the family of John Donne, set in 17th century London

John Selden, John Donne, John Fletcher

From the saddlebags, hung on a Hitchcock chair, David took out a good English razor, a present from John Hunter.

From 1896 until 1910 John H. Whipple was manager of Western Union at the Center in the drugstore he purchased from Clark Wait.

John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace, Crossway Books.

From the 1930s to the 1960s, archaeologists like V. Gordon Childe and later John Hamilton regarded them as castles where local landowners held sway over a subject population.

Other roles for Campbell included the Michael Crichton adaptation Congo, the film version of McHale's Navy, and Escape From L. A., the sequel to John Carpenter's Escape From New York.

From 1799 to 1807 the military commandant was John Despard, brother of Edward.

From his religious training, Mather viewed the importance of texts for elaborating meaning and for bridging different moments of history — linking, for instance, the Biblical stories of Noah and Abraham with the arrival of such eminent leaders as John Eliot ; John Winthrop ; and his own father, Increase Mather.

From 1920 Eisenhower served with an unprecedented succession of generals – Fox Conner, John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur and George Marshall.

It was also at this juncture that the US Ambassador to the UN, John Foster Dulles, said, " From the point of view of justice, the opinions of the Eritrean people must receive consideration.

From the time of John Flamsteed ( 1646 – 1719 ) it had been believed that the Earth's daily rotation was uniform.

John Backus presented FP in his 1977 Turing Award lecture " Can Programming Be Liberated From the von Neumann Style?

From the mid-1760s a range of Neoclassical modes were fashionable, associated with the British architects Robert Adam, James Gibbs, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, George Dance the Younger, Henry Holland and Sir John Soane.

From 1990 to 1993 it was maintained by John Gilmore while he worked for Cygnus Solutions.

From 1212 onwards, John had a constant policy of maintaining close relations with the Pope, which partially explains how he persuaded the Pope to reject the legitimacy of the Magna Carta.

* Frontline — From Daniel M ' Naughten to John Hinckley: A Brief History of the Insanity Defense

From Libanius, John acquired the skills for a career in rhetoric, as well as a love of the Greek language and literature.

From 1952 to 1962 he worked as a professor at the John Curtin School of Medical Research ( JCSMR ) of the Australian National University.

From 1814 Keats had two bequests held in trust for him until his 21st birthday: £ 800 willed by his grandfather John Jennings ( about £ 34, 000 in today's money ) and a portion of his mother's legacy, £ 8000 ( about £ 340, 000 today ), to be equally divided between her living children.

From James being thus placed first, the conclusion is drawn that John was the younger of the two brothers.

From 1946, Dirks ' son, John Dirks, gradually began doing more of the work on The Captain and the Kids.

From 1825 – 1827, the British sealer John Nunn and three crew members were shipwrecked on Kerguelen.

From 1795 Canadians from Brandon House were trading with the Mandans and in 1796 John Evans ( explorer ) reached the Mandans from the Mississippi.

For the original British and Australian releases, a spoof travelogue narrated by John Cleese Away From It All, was shown before the film itself.