Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . to a less graciousreference to worldlycalculations and am-bitious hopes. The king encouraged him to take English now, as one would hope, or, as Mr Gossethinks, after his wifes death (1617), his deepernature was stirred to true religious zeal, andtheology was no longer a hobby or a profes-sional exercise. Waltons story that Donne hadfourteen livings offered him in his first year ofcleric
Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . to a less graciousreference to worldlycalculations and am-bitious hopes. The king encouraged him to take English now, as one would hope, or, as Mr Gossethinks, after his wifes death (1617), his deepernature was stirred to true religious zeal, andtheology was no longer a hobby or a profes-sional exercise. Waltons story that Donne hadfourteen livings offered him in his first year ofclerical life is shown by Mr Gosse to be quiteincredible ; but seasonable preferments camefairly soon. In 1616 he received the livings ofKeyston in Huntingdon and Sevenoaks in Kent,but he never lived in either parish. \ariouspreacherships he also held, and in 1621 becameDean of St Pauls. Charles I. had resolved tomake him a bishop, but Donne died on the 31stof March 1631, before this purpose was carried was buried in St Pauls, and by-and-by thateccentric monument was erected from the paintingmade in the last month of the Deans lifeâtheinvalid solemnly posing to the artist sheeted in a. JOHN DONNE. From .1 in the Dyce and Forster Collection at South Kensington Museum. shroud and standing on an urn in a speciallywarmed room. From his ordination till near hisend Donne wrote few poems ; his trenchantthought, his brilliant fancy, his profound insight,and his command of the English tongue findingoutlet in his sermons. Donnes poemsâsongs and quatorzains, satires,elegies, religious poems, complimentary epistles inverse, epithalamiums, epigrams, and miscellaneousmeditations in metreâwere many of them dili-gently handed about in manuscript from thebeginning, but were not collected and publishedtill 1633. In virtue of his early poems, whoseerotic sensualism he in later days regrettedâ though he preservedthe MSS., as Beza,another Churchman,republished his eroticverseâDonn
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