John Donne was born into a Catholic family in 1572. After a
conventional education at Hart Hall, Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn, he
took part in the Earl of Essex's expedition to the Azores in 1597.
He secretly married Anne More in December 1601 and was imprisoned
by her father, Sir George More, in the Fleet two months later. He
was ordained as a priest in January 1615 and took a doctorate of
divinity at Cambridge the same year. He was made dean of St. Paul's
Cathedral in London in 1621, a position he held until his death in
1631. He is famous for the sermons he preached in his later years
as well as for his poems.
Andrew Motion is the author of three biographies and a number of
books of poetry. He served as Poet Laureate of Great Britain from
1999 to 2009, and is currently a professor of creative writing at
the University of East Anglia. Motion serves as head of the
literature panel of the Arts Council of Englandand frequently
broadcasts on the BBC.
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