Collected Poems of John Donne - A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning + 57 other Songs and Sonnets

This carefully crafted ebook: ",Collected Poems of John Donne - A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning + 57 other Songs and Sonnets ", is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Content:A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, The Flea, The Good-Morrow, Song : Go and catch a falling star, Woman's Constancy, The Undertaking, The Sun Rising, The Indifferent, Love's Usury, The Canonization, The Triple Fool, Lovers' Infiniteness, Song : Sweetest love, I do not go, The Legacy, A Fever, Air and Angels, Break of Day, [Another of the same] [Break of Day], The Anniversary, A Valediction of my Name, in the Window, Twickenham Garden, Valediction to his Book, Community, Love's Growth, Love's Exchange, Confined Love, The Dream, A Valediction of Weeping, Love's Alchemy, The Curse, The Message, A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy's Day, Witchcraft by a Picture, The Bait, The Apparition, The Broken Heart, The Ecstacy, Love's Deity, Love's Diet, The Will, The Funeral, The Blossom, The Primrose, The Relic, The Damp, The Dissolution, A Jet Ring Sent, Negative Love, The Prohibition, The Expiration, The Computation, The Paradox, Song: Soul's joy, now I am gone, Farewell to Love, A Lecture Upon the Shadow, A Dialogue Between Sir Henry Wotton and Mr. Donne, The Token, Self-Love ",A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", is a metaphysical poem written in 1611 or 1612 for his wife Anne before he left on a trip to Continental Europe. ",A Valediction", is a 36-line love poem that was first published in the 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets, two years after Donne's death. Based around the idea of two parting lovers, the poem is notable for its use of conceits and heavy allegory to describe the couple's relationship.John Donne was an English poet, satirist, lawyer and priest. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries.