News at Eleven: This is presumably what King James had seen

in [John] Donne as a potential priest, when he argued that no one would take him seriously as a religious man. He was known as the poet and fool who married for love, he said. This is partly true. His poems were heralded, and censured, as rhetorically virtuosic, wrenchingly romantic, coming from a man who flagrantly disregarded traditional poetic meter and had a spectacular sex life. Like so many, Donne had written to woo, and he really meant it. Consider this sly entreaty in "The Flea": "And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;/Thou know'st that this cannot be said/A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead,/Yet this enjoys before it woo,/And pampered swells with one blood made of two,/And this, alas, is more than we would do.?

from CUNY Graduate Center Advocate: Every Man Alone, A Phoenix

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