September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English
It doesn’t have to be John Donne, although I can’t think why anyone wouldn’t want to read him. He was a seventeenth-century English writer of poetry and sermons (you can enjoy them whether or not you share his beliefs). Perhaps his most famous line is ‘no man is an island’, which is part of an eloquent sermon justifying this viewpoint. He’s an easy writer to read because many of his poems are short and you can dip in and out of them, or read one a day.
You want to know why you have to read Donne? Well, the thing about Donne is that not only are his writings beautiful, brilliantly crafted, moving and still relevant today, they are also thought-provoking. To appreciate them fully, you have to engage your brain. He uses ...