Love and Sexuality in John Donne's Sonnets. On Inner Conflicts, Desperation and the Devotion to God

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: One thing that matters quite a lot in Donne’s sonnets is that he was, on the one hand, “a very masculine lover of women”, on the other hand “a very devout lover of God” (cf. Edwards 6). He was constantly torn between sex...