The Broken Heart Resources

Websites

Donne and Done

The Poetry Foundation's lengthy and insightful biography is a great place to start learning about the man.

Digital Donne

This site is a really cool online companion to a comprehensive collection of Donne's poetry.

John Donne Society

Here's a group of folks who really like Donne and his work. They get together in Louisiana, of all places.

Video

Melancholy Selfie Vid

Putting you head in your hand seems like the proper pose to read this poem.

An Animated Take

Here's an animated character giving a reading of the poem.

Audio

Librivox's Take

Here's a very proper reading in the public domain.

White Lion's Take

Sorry—we just can't sit on this 1980s awesomeness.

Images

That Hat, Though

Here's a portrait of the poet, looking young and jaunty.

Proper Donne

We dig the collar, but it looks pretty uncomfortable.

Nearly-Dead Donne

A bit morbidly, Donne posed in his own burial shroud not too long before he died.

Articles and Interviews

"Herbert Sucks. Donne is a Pimp."

Do high school students make good literary critics? They seem to like Donne at least.

Books

The Complete English Poems

Get all of Donne's poems in one handy book.