between february and august 1609 wrote the poem death be not proud.
who wrote the poem death be not proud?
between february and august 1609
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sonnet x, also known by its opening words as "death be not proud", is a fourteen-line poem, or sonnet, by english poet john donne (1572–1631), one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century english literature. written between february and august 1609, it was not published during donne's lifetime; it was first published posthumously in 1633.
death be not proud (poem)
because chester dedicated the main poem to the welsh statesman sir john salusbury and his wife ursula stanley, it has been argued that all the poems in the collection, including shakespeare's, also celebrate the couple. salusbury was a courtier at the court of elizabeth i, and was a member of the powerful salusbury family of wales. his wife ursula was the illegitimate daughter of henry stanley, 4th earl of derby. a difficulty with this view is the fact that the couple are known to have had ten children, but the poem refers to the relationship as a childless "married chastity". this is commented on elsewhere in the collection by john marston, and all the poems in the collection emphasise the chaste and spiritual nature of the relationship, the couple's only child being the mysterious being born from their bodily deaths. the identification of the salusburys as the subject was first argued in detail by carleton brown in 1913. brown tried to resolve the problem by arguing that it was written after the birth of the couple's first child, but not published until many years later. later writers have sometimes argued that while chester's "love's martyr" may be intended to celebrate the couple, shakespeare's own poem does not. john klause suggests that the "death" implied in chester's work is symbolic of marriage and "sexual surrender", but in shakespeare's poem death is literal. g. wilson knight suggested that the poem celebrates chaste love because it is about salusbury's devotion to his sister, for whom salusbury himself had written a poem.
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