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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner. - John Donne Attribution: John Donne (c. 1572–1631), British divine, metaphysical poet. repr. In Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, ed. John Hayward (1929). Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, meditation 12 (1624).

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John Donne

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• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
• John Donne's Songs and Sonnets
• John Donne’s Holy Sonnets

Salem on History:

• John Donne

Encyclopedia:

• Donne, John (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Donne, John (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)

Salem on Literature:

• Elegy for John Donne (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
• John Donne (Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries)
• John Donne (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• John Donne (Critical Survey of Poetry)

Literary Criticism:

• Donne, John (Poetry)
• Donne, John (Literary Criticism (1400-1800))

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Izaak Walton publishes The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert
• John Donne's Death's Duell is published
• John Donne dies
• John Donne publishes Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
• John Donne is born