England’s Antiphon

We now come to Dr. John Donne, a man of justly great respect and authority, who, born in the year 1573, the fifteenth of Queen Elizabeth, died Dean of St. Paul’s in the year 1636. But, although even Ben Jonson addresses him as the delight of Phoebus and each Muse, we are too far beyond the power of his social presence and the influence of his public utterances to feel that admiration of his poems which was so largely expressed during his lifetime.