John Donne, Holy Sonnets
Cycle 04 — Poetry.
Framing
A short public-facing blurb for this reading goes here: why nineteen sonnets written by a sick and grieving Anglican priest close the four-cycle arc — what direct address to God in formal verse does that no other form on this list does, and how Donne’s wrestling pairs with Boethius’s prison-cell consolation across a thousand years.