John Donne

John Donne (/ˈdʌn/ DUN) (22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques. His early career was marked by poetry that bore immense knowledge of English society and he met that knowledge with sharp criticism. Another important theme in Donne's poetry is the idea of true religion, something that he spent much time considering and about which he often theorized. He wrote secular poems as well as erotic and love poems. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits.

John Donne (disambiguation)

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Sportspeople

James Wright (wide receiver)

James Earl Wright (born December 31, 1991) is an American football wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Bengals in the seventh round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played college football at LSU.

Professional career

Cincinnati Bengals

Wright was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the seventh round (239th overall) of the 2014 NFL draft.

On October 12, 2014, Wright recorded his first career reception, in overtime against the Carolina Panthers, good for 24 yards and setting up a would-be game-winning field goal by the Bengals. However, the attempt was missed by Mike Nugent, ending the game in a 37-37 tie.

On November 30, 2014, Wright had a career-best 3 receptions for 59 yards, including a 30-yard reception late in the fourth quarter which helped the Bengals to a 14-13 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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James Wright (cricketer, born 1912)

James Egerton Lowndes Wright (10 May 1912 – 14 January 1987) was an English cricketer. Wright was a right-handed batsman. He was born at London.

Educated at Winchester College, he progressed from the college cadet force to enlist in the London Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant. In 1935 he gained promotion to Lieutenant in the same regiment. In 1937, Wright made a single first-class appearance for the Free Foresters against Oxford University at the University Parks. In a match which Oxford University won by ten wickets, Wright batted twice, scoring 48 runs in the Free Foresters first-innings before being dismissed by Bill Murray-Wood, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for a duck by David Macindoe.

He died at Ashford Hill, Hampshire on 14 January 1987. His father Egerton Wright also played first-class cricket.

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