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Jill Finch<\/a> celebrates the birthday of poet John Donne<\/span><\/p>\n

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Every Friday in St Paul\u2019s cathedral as I take a group of visitors around Wren\u2019s masterpiece I am always running late. But, as I let the group know that now is their chance to run for the hills before we get to the crypt and that cup of tea they crave or their climb to the stone gallery will be a bit delayed there is one statue I cannot walk past and ignore.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr John Donne, father of the metaphysical poets was born in 1572 in the City of London in Bread Street. Well within the sound of the bells of St Mary le Bow and a stone\u2019s throw from St Paul\u2019s Cathedral. He was the cockney Catholic poet who became the Anglican Dean.<\/span><\/p>\n

Donne\u2019s statue is the only one to stand on both the current and previous Cathedral floors. When the Great Fire of London reached the roof of old St Paul\u2019s its lead melted into the building, the floor gave way and Donne was later salvaged from the rubble. The statue was then left in the crypt of the new cathedral where it stayed for many years before being given its current niche in the Dean\u2019s aisle.<\/span><\/p>\n

During WW2 Donne was stored in the crypt for safety and in his book \u2018St Paul\u2019s in Wartime\u2019 Dean Matthews tells how he slept beside his stone predecessor \u2013 possibly hoping that since Donne\u2019s statue had made it through the Great Fire of London they would both make it through the Blitz \u2013 often called the second Great Fire.<\/span><\/p>\n

Donne the man and Donne the statue both fascinate me. In February 1631, Donne delivered the Lent service at the Palace of Whitehall, looking so ill that it was thought of as almost his own funeral sermon (later published under the title \u2018Death\u2019s Duell\u2019). In March he orchestrated his own memorial with props used when he was sketched for a statue. A carpenter created a mock urn, and Donne rose from his sick bed and wrapped himself up in a winding sheet. His idea was to be shown as if on the day of judgement, rising from his funeral urn. He was so pleased with the drawing, done on a life size piece of board, that he kept it with him in his room \u2013 his death\u2019s head at his bedside. He died on the 31st<\/sup> March 1631.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the artist Nicholas Stone completed the statue he was kind to the Dean, showing him looking serene, almost seraphic, and a lot less the gaunt figure of Stone\u2019s engraving to be seen in Westminster Abbey.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Long before Byron was breaking Caroline Lamb\u2019s heart and earning the epithet she coined to describe him as \u2018mad, bad and dangerous to know\u2019, John Donne was the bad boy poet of the Elizabethan age; a man of many parts and contradictions.<\/span><\/p>\n

A serious student at Oxford he left without a degree to avoid revealing his Catholic faith. Promiscuous in his youth he was a romantic poet who never saw himself as such and in fact was faintly contemptuous of the poets of his day. A student at Lincoln\u2019s Inn who sailed to Cadiz with the Earl of Essex he also worked for Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and member of the Queen\u2019s Privy Council. Donne walked a narrow line through the religious minefield of the 16th<\/sup> and early 17th<\/sup> centuries to become a \u2018made man\u2019 \u2013 then he threw it all away for love.<\/span><\/p>\n

John Donne, Anne Donne, Undone<\/em> \u2013 his words, written in irony, were prophetic. Jail, penury and ostracism followed his secret marriage to Anne Moore, Thomas Egerton\u2019s niece.<\/span><\/p>\n

But \u2013 he never stopped writing or questioning the religious and moral certainties of the day. Henry of Navarre was the Huguenot who declared that Paris was worth a mass and converted to Catholicism to take the throne of France. John Donne reversed this ideal and converted to the Anglican faith to protect himself and his family. He became the Dean of St Paul\u2019s Cathedral and his sermons are held up as some of the most enlightened ever written.<\/span><\/p>\n

His words, including the phrases \u2018No man is an island\u2019 and \u2018For whom the bell tolls\u2019 – have become part of our language http:\/\/www.online-literature.com\/donne\/409\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Come and visit him at St Paul\u2019s \u2013 his urn has one broken handle and it still bears the scorch marks from over 300 years ago \u2013 but John Donne is still standing – not only as a link to the Cathedral\u2019s past but as a standard bearer for religious complexity and compassion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jill Finch January 2015<\/span>
\nTo get another angle on John Donne visit the Virtual Paul\u2019s Cross website where there is a recreation of his Gunpowder Day sermon from November 1622 \u2013 go to<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu\/ <\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A new bronze bust of John Donne now stands in St Paul\u2019s churchyard showing him looking east towards his birth <\/span>place, Bread Street.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sculpture forms part of my Wren Watching walk which will be on the Footprints Calendar in March 2015<\/span><\/p>\n

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