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John Donne's poetry is marked by a scientific colloquial directness and a complex, even tortured, intelligence. It falls into two classes. There is the early ironic and erotic poetry that contains some of the finest English love poetry and also his later, religious poetry.
Sublime poetry: the love and the holy sonnets too. A rare example of formal perfection, the final result of an obsessive research on words. A deep and intense perception of love, life and religious search.
The Collected Poems of John Donne | 
