BIOL1008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Margaret Edson, Berlin Wall, Consumerism
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Module a - w;t and donne: study notes. Born in 1572, in london, england to a. England was under the rule of elizabeth the first a protestant monarch and his family was harassed for catholic beliefs. Donne"s father died when he was three years old. Donne attended oxford university at the age of 12. At oxford he relinquished his catholic faith and joined the church of england. Married anne more when she was 15 years old without the permission of her father, donne was almost 30. After he was released, anne bore him 12 children and then died. Donne was a man of the renaissance, and time of historical, artistic and technological flourishing. The world was rediscovery the art and philosophy of the classical age. The church of england was flourishing, along with other protestant denominations. It was a highly religious time as well as an artistic one. Love, life, sex, spirituality and death were all intertwined.
