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As I was reading some poems by an author named John Donne. I looked more into his work. I was really interested in what other poems and what other work he has done. As I learned more about him this is what I came across. John Donne was ranked with Milton as one of the greatest English poets. He was born in Bread Street, London between January 4 and June 19 1572 to a wealthy Roman Catholic family. His father was John Donne and his mother was Elizabeth, the daughter of John Heywood. John’s father died shortly after he was born in 1576. John’s brother Henry died in 1593 of a fever caught in Newgate Prison, where he was incarcerated for harboring a Roman Catholic priest. When John was 11 years of age he was entered at Hart Hall, University of Oxford, where he studied for 3 years. The next 3 years he spent at the University of Cambridge, but he didn’t get a degree at either university because he didn’t want to take the Oath of Supremacy which was requi