To His Mistress Going to Bed
John Donne
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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 (0 hr 43 min)
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To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by ALP | 3:26 | Read by Algy Pug |
To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by DM | 3:50 | Read by Dafni Ma |
To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by EL | 3:47 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by GG | 3:42 | Read by Greg Giordano |
To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by JA | 2:31 | Read by Jenny Adamson |
To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by JCB | 3:48 | Read by Jason in Panama |
To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by MSD | 3:41 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by PJW | 3:57 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by TA | 3:56 | Read by Tony Addison |
To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by TP | 3:27 | Read by Tomas Peter |
To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by VB | 4:17 | Read by tovarisch |
To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by VLR | 3:12 | Read by Vickie Rayhill |