In his own lifetime, he was best known as a bureaucrat and clergyman, and his poems circulated privately among members of the court.
In his own lifetime, he was best known as a bureaucrat and clergyman, and his poems circulated privately among members of the court. A master of the conceit, he famously compared two lovers to the legs of a compass and the sun to a pesky busybody. For ten points, identify this seventeenth-century English metaphysical poet, whose works include the Holy Sonnets, "The Sun Rising," and "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning."
In his own lifetime, he was best known as a bureaucrat and clergyman, and his poems circulated privately among members of the court.
John {Donne}