... - 2001 ed.). His luck changed, nevertheless, in 1601, when he secretly married Lady Egerton's niece, seventeen-year-old Anne More. Donne was thrown into Fleet Prison for quite awhile and Egerton dismissed Donne from his post (Bloom 27). For the next dozen years John, still an unnoticed poet, had to struggle to support his growing family. Later, in a characteristic pun, John summed up ... continued his endorsement with Anniversaries " An Anatomy of the World in 1611 and Of the Progress of the Soul in 1612 (Jokinen "English Literature-). The poems are still famous today, for the way the de...

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