A review by veelaughtland
John Donne A Selection of His Poetry by John Hayward, John Donne

2.0

I hadn't read any of Donne's poetry since my last year at school, but decided to pick up this little copy of some of his selected works from my classroom bookshelf (schools are good in that way). Although there were certain poems that I remembered and liked, such as The Flea and The Sunne Rising, I didn't warm to a lot of the poetry within this book. Don't get me wrong - there were some lovely lines and some quite humorous poems, and I am still shocked and amused by the candid way in which Donne talks about sex (particularly for the time period in which they were written). Unfortunately however, the language did not really pull me in the majority of the time, and some poems in the book were far too verbose and long-winded for my liking.