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Holy Sonnets

Index Holy Sonnets

The Holy Sonnets—also known as the Divine Meditations or Divine Sonnets—are a series of nineteen poems by the English poet John Donne (1572–1631). [1]

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  1. 62 relations: Anglicanism, As Due By Many Titles, Bass trombone, Batter my heart, three-person'd God, Benjamin Britten, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Death Be Not Proud, Doctor Atomic, Earl of Westmorland, Elegy, Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland, French horn, Gregg Herken, Holy orders, Hubert Parry, If Faithful Souls, Ignatius of Loyola, Imogen Holst, Izaak Walton, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jasper Heywood, Jean Tatlock, Jesuits, John Adams (composer), John Donne, John Tavener, Leslie Groves, Libretto, Manhattan Project, Meditation, Metaphysical poets, Minimal music, Miscellany, Motet, Nazi concentration camps, New York Public Library, Peter Pears, Peter Sellars, Petrarch, Pseudo-Martyr, Quatrain, Religious conversion, Religious music, Royal College of Music, Sestet, Song cycle, Songs of Farewell, Sonnet, Soprano, Spiritual Exercises, ... Expand index (12 more) »

  2. 1633 books
  3. 1633 poems
  4. Poetry by John Donne
  5. Sonnets

Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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As Due By Many Titles

"Sonnet II", also known by its opening words as "As Due By Many Titles", is a poem written by John Donne, who is considered to be one of the representatives of the metaphysical poetry in English literature. Holy Sonnets and as Due By Many Titles are 1633 poems, English poetry, English poetry collections, poems published posthumously, poetry by John Donne and sonnets.

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Bass trombone

The bass trombone (Bassposaune, trombone basso) is the bass instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments.

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Batter my heart, three-person'd God

"Holy Sonnet XIV" – also known by its first line as "Batter my heart, three-person'd God" – is a poem written by the English poet John Donne (1572 – 1631). Holy Sonnets and Batter my heart, three-person'd God are 1633 poems, English poetry, poems published posthumously, poetry by John Donne and sonnets.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist.

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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle.

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Death Be Not Proud

"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 group of seventeenth-century English literature. Holy Sonnets and Death Be Not Proud are 1633 poems, poems published posthumously and poetry by John Donne.

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Doctor Atomic

Doctor Atomic is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars.

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Earl of Westmorland

Earl of Westmorland is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of England.

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Elegy

An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead.

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Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland

Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1 February 158023 March 1629), (styled Sir Francis Fane between 1603 and 1624) of Mereworth in Kent and of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1624 and then was raised to the Peerage as Earl of Westmorland.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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Gregg Herken

Gregg Herken is an American historian and museum curator who is Professor Emeritus of modern American diplomatic History at the University of California, Santa Cruz & Merced, whose scholarship mostly concerns the history of the development of atomic energy and the Cold War.

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Holy orders

In certain Christian denominations, holy orders are the ordained ministries of bishop, priest (presbyter), and deacon, and the sacrament or rite by which candidates are ordained to those orders.

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Hubert Parry

Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (27 February 1848 – 7 October 1918), was an English composer, teacher and historian of music.

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If Faithful Souls

Holy Sonnet VIII – also known by its opening words as If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified – is a poem written by John Donne, an English metaphysical poet. Holy Sonnets and if Faithful Souls are 1633 poems, poems published posthumously and poetry by John Donne.

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Ignatius of Loyola

Ignatius of Loyola (Ignazio Loiolakoa; Ignacio de Loyola; Ignatius de Loyola; born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spanish-French Basque Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and became its first Superior General, in Paris in 1541.

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Imogen Holst

Imogen Clare Holst (12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and festival administrator.

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Izaak Walton

Izaak Walton (baptised 21 September 1593 – 15 December 1683) was an English writer.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Jasper Heywood

Jasper Heywood (1535 – 9 January 1598) was an English Jesuit priest.

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Jean Tatlock

Jean Frances Tatlock (February 21, 1914 – January 4, 1944) was an American psychiatrist.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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John Adams (composer)

John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer and conductor whose music is rooted in minimalism.

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John Donne

John Donne (1571 or 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England.

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John Tavener

Sir John Kenneth Tavener (28 January 1944 – 12 November 2013) was an English composer, known for his extensive output of choral religious works.

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Leslie Groves

Leslie Richard Groves Jr. (17 August 1896 – 13 July 1970) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.

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Libretto

A libretto (an English word derived from the Italian word libretto) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons.

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Meditation

Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique to train attention and awareness and detach from reflexive, "discursive thinking," achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state, while not judging the meditation process itself.

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Metaphysical poets

The term Metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterised by the inventive use of conceits, and by a greater emphasis on the spoken rather than lyrical quality of their verse.

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Minimal music

Minimal music (also called minimalism)"Minimalism in music has been defined as an aesthetic, a style, and a technique, each of which has been a suitable description of the term at certain points in the development of minimal music.

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Miscellany

A miscellany is a collection of various pieces of writing by different authors.

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Motet

In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present.

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Nazi concentration camps

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe.

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New York Public Library

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.

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Peter Pears

Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (22 June 19103 April 1986) was an English tenor.

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Peter Sellars

Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays.

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Petrarch

Francis Petrarch (20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; Franciscus Petrarcha; modern Francesco Petrarca), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance and one of the earliest humanists.

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Pseudo-Martyr

Pseudo-Martyr is a 1610 polemical prose tract in English by John Donne.

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Quatrain

A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines.

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Religious conversion

Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others.

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Religious music

Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence.

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Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music (RCM) is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK.

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Sestet

A sestet is six lines of poetry forming a stanza or complete poem.

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Song cycle

A song cycle (Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group, or cycle, of individually complete songs designed to be performed in sequence, as a unit.

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Songs of Farewell

Songs of Farewell is a set of six choral motets by the British composer Hubert Parry.

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Sonnet

The term sonnet derives from the Italian word sonetto (from the Latin word sonus). It refers to a fixed verse poetic form, traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme. Holy Sonnets and sonnet are sonnets.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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Spiritual Exercises

The Spiritual Exercises (Exercitia spiritualia), composed 1522–1524, are a set of Christian meditations, contemplations, and prayers written by Ignatius of Loyola, a 16th-century Spanish Catholic priest, theologian, and founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).

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Stanza

In poetry, a stanza (from Italian stanza) is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation.

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String section

The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.

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Tenor

A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.

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The Holy Sonnets of John Donne

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne is a song cycle composed in 1945 by Benjamin Britten for tenor or soprano voice and piano, and published as his Op. 35. Holy Sonnets and The Holy Sonnets of John Donne are poetry by John Donne.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Timpani

Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.

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Trombone

The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet.

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William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, KG, KB, PC (25 December 1676), who after 1665 styled himself as Prince William Cavendish, was an English courtier and supporter of the arts.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin (22 April 191612 March 1999), was an American-born British violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain.

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See also

1633 books

1633 poems

Poetry by John Donne

Sonnets

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Sonnets

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