Download or read book The Collected Poems of John Donne written by John Donne and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Donne's poetry is marked by a scientific colloquial directness and a complex, even tortured, intelligence. It falls into two classes. There is the early ironic and erotic poetry that contains some of the finest English love poetry and also his later, religious poetry.