1. John Donne
... twice as President of the Royal College of Physicians (Bloom 15). At a very young age John was privately taught by Jesuits, which accounted for his later ability to "draw geography, science, and platonic philosophy into his poems of happy relationships (The Metaphysical Poets [Motion Picture])."" In 1584, John, age twelve, and his brother Henry, age eleven, enrolled at Hart Hall, University ... , Undone (McDaniel "Donne's Love Poetry-)." During the next few years Donne made a meager living as a lawyer, and served as counsel for Thomas Morton, an anti-Roman Catholic pamphleteer (Jokinen "...
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