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So all were lost, which in the ship were found,
They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown’d. - John Donne Attribution: John Donne (1572–1631), British poet. A Burnt Ship (l. 5–6). . . The Complete English Poems [John Donne]. A. J. Smith, ed. (1971) Penguin Books.

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John Donne

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• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
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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
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• John Donne publishes Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
• John Donne is born