This poet was dismissed from his post as secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton after he married Egerton's niece and made a meager living as a lawyer and pamphleteer.
This poet was dismissed from his post as secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton after he married Egerton's niece and made a meager living as a lawyer and pamphleteer. In 1615, after abandoning Roman Catholicism and converting to Anglicanism, he became a priest and six years later was appointed dean of St. Paul's Cathedral. He is best remembered now as the best of the metaphysical poets. For ten points, name the author of "Valediction Forbidding Mourning," "The Flea" and "Holy Sonnets."
This poet was dismissed from his post as secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton after he married Egerton's niece and made a meager living as a lawyer and pamphleteer.
John {Donne}