To His Mistress Going to Bed

Author(s): John Donne

Genre(s): Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)

Narrators: Algy Pug, Dafni Ma, Newgatenovelist, Greg Giordano, Jenny Adamson, Jason In Panama, Matthew Datcher, Patrick Wallace, Tony Addison, Tomas Peter, Tovarisch, Vickie Rayhill

Number of Chapters: 12

Length: 43 minutes

Language: English

John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England.

He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, 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. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques. - Summary by Wikipedia