The Concept of Love in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

John Donne's Poetic Philosophy of Love By Dr. David Naugle Stand still, and I will read to thee, A lecture, love, in love's philosophy. —John Donne, “Lecture upon the Shadow” For the enormously complex and vexed John Donne (1572-1631), the one in whom all “contraries meet,” (Holy Sonnet 18), life was love—the love of women in his ................
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