![]() ![]() ![]() Īnd then there is the work Donne is most famous for the love poetry and the erotic verse. One of the many things he interrogates in his sensual poems is sex and love, a prime example of which is the innuendo-filled The Flea. Rundell first talks about his childhood living as a Catholic under the Protestant regime of Elizabeth I and how living under the yoke of this religion informed his obsessions and how he viewed the world, with “careful and skeptical eyes”. Living in the 17th century, Donne is one of the preeminent representatives of the Metaphysical Poets, alongside Abraham Cowley and John Cleveland, a school characterized by wordplay, wit and an emphasis on the spoken rather than the lyrical quality of their verse. ![]()
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