Master of revels, L. Inn 1592 – 93, preacher 1616 – 22; sec. to Sir Thomas Egerton I by 1598 – 1602; chaplain to James I 1615; rector of Keyston, Hunts. 1616, of Sevenoaks, Kent from 1617, of Blunham, Beds. 1627; dean of St. Paul’s from 1621; vicar of St. Dunstan-in-the-West from 1624.
The principal authorities are: R. C. Bald, John Donne, A Life (1970); E Gosse, Life and Letters of John Donne (1899); C. M. Coffin, John Donne and the New Philosophy (1937); H. Fausset, John Donne; K. Grandsden, John Donne (1954); S. Dark, Five Deans (1927); John Donne, Poetry and Prose, ed. H. W. Garrod; Anderson, Lives of the Poets, iv. (1793); J. E. kempe, The Classic Preachers of the English Church (1877); G. Keynes, A Bibliography of Donne (1932); Works of John Donne, ed. H. Alford (1839); DNB; Walton, Life of John Donne, printed in Garrod, op. cit. xvii-xliv; Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems, ed. H. J. C. Grierson (1950); E. K. Chambers 'John Donne, diplomatist and soldier' in Mod. Language Rev. (1910), v. 492-3; J Sparrow 'The date of Donne's travels' in A Garland for John Donne, ed. T Spencer (1931), pp. 123-51; A. L. Shapiro, 'John Donne and Lincoln's Inn 1591-4' in Times Lit Supp. 16, 23 Oct. 1930; N. and Q. cxcvii. 310-13.
DONNE, John (1572-1631)