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In his religious verse John Donne (1572-1631) used the same techniques he had developed in his love poetry. In this article I shall examine two of his religious poems, 'Holy Sonnet (Batter my Heart)', and 'A Hymn to God the Father.'

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Edward J. Hughes grew up in Yorkshire where the bleak moorland and its wildlife provided a backdrop to many of his poems.

Thomas's style of verse employs free association and musical concatenations. It sounds musical, but is this its sole effect ? as word music where sense is secondary to euphonic syntax? Philip Larkin disapproved of Thomas's style because he felt the verse was too personalised and lacked communicative force