John Donne died on this day in 1631. Donne was variously a lawyer, member of parliament, a satirist, a womanizer, which, incidentally, in good part cost him his inheritance, a fortune he ran through with astonishing speed. He was also a reluctant Anglican priest and eventually dean of St Paul’s Cathedral.
He was also one of England’s greatest poets.
Somehow I find it delicious that he has a feast day in the Anglican calendar. We need, I suspect, a few more saints like him…
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