Epitaph for Anne Donne [manuscript], 1601/1602 February 2.

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Epitaph for Anne Donne [manuscript], 1601/1602 February 2.

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John Donne's cruciform epitaph for his wife. Includes a list of the knights of Loseley and Anne Donne's relationship to them (daughter, sister, grand-daughter, great grand-daughter), followed by lines praising of Anne Donne's qualities as a woman, wife and mother, references to her years of marriage, pregnancies, and circumstances of her death, and John Donne's pledge to have his ashes "wed" her ashes in a "new marriage."

1 leaf ; 32 x 23 cm.

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Donne, Anne More, -1617

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Donne, John, 1572-1631

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Proposed for publication as part of the Percy Society series. From the description of The Songs and sonnets of Dr. John Donne : with critical notes by the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge / edited by Barron Field, Esq. : manuscript, [ca. 1840] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612868820 Herbert Grierson attached great importance to the manuscript and presumed the writer to be an acquaintance of Donne. From the description of Poems and paradoxes : manuscript, ...