John Donne was born in Bread Street, London, in 1572 to a prominent Roman-Catholic family (Jokinen “English Literature”). Donne was the third child out of a family that would have seven. His father, also John Donne, was a respected and prosperous ironmonger of the Welsh descent (Bloom 11). His mother was Elizabeth Heywood Donne, whose father, appropriately enough, was John Heywood, an English writer of many interludes, whom participated in the developm

Many scholars have observed that as the months passed, Donne’s fascination with death had turned into an obsession (The Metaphysical Poets [Motion Picture]). One of the Holy Sonnets, Death Be Not Proud, presents the contradictory views of Donne. The opening lines, "Death be not proud, though some have called thee/Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so," demonstrates Donne’s uncertainty on the issue of dying (Knuth “John Donne”). A few weeks before he died, Donne preached what he called “his own funeral sermon,” Death's Duel (Halio “John Donne” 1998 ed.). The last thing Donne transcribed was Hymne to God, my God, In my Sicknesse, written just before he died, on March 31, 1631, where he acknowledges his death and prays that God hears him in his last hours (Jokinen “English Literature”).

After suffering the tragedy, Donne expressed his feelings through a series of poems, titled Satires, in which he renounced the Catholic faith (Jokinen “English Literature”). The collection of poems would later become a book considered one of Donne's most important literary efforts. Also written around the same time, was his volume of love poems titled Songs and Sonnets (“John Donne” 2001 ed.).

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