about imminent death and his fears for his chance of salvation is structured around an elaborate series of puns, some of the central ones about his own name, and the maiden name of the wife he had gained by clandestine marriage and lost to death.A Hymn to God the Father
from The Guardian: John Donne, priest and poet, part 7: puns in defiance of reason
then The Guardian: John Donne, priest and poet, part 6: struggling with mixed metaphors
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