... I came across. John Donne was ranked with Milton as one of the greatest English poets. He was born in Bread Street, London between January 4 and June 19 1572 to a wealthy Roman Catholic family. His father was John Donne and his mother was Elizabeth, the daughter of John Heywood. John's father died shortly after he was born in 1576. John's brother Henry ... died in 1593 of a fever caught in Newgate Prison, where he was incarcerated for harboring a Roman Catholic priest. When John was 11 years of age he was entered at Hart Hall, University of Oxford, where he studied for 3 years. The next...

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... of John Donne's biography and how the issue of death is brought about in his Holy Sonnet 10, commonly called, "Death be not proud". John Donne was born into a prosperous Roman Catholic family in London in 1572. He was surrounded by many periods of grief in his lifetime. First, in 1576, Donne's father died suddenly and left three children to be ... raised by their mother, Elizabeth (Jokinen 1). Then, in 1593, Donne's younger brother Henry died of a fever in prison after being arrested for giving sanctuary to a proscribed Catholic priest (Jokinen 1). This incident made Donne question his ...

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