Donne was born with Roman Catholic parents. Donne was four when his father died. At age 12 Donne matriculated at the university of oxford, where he studied for 3 years and continued the rest of his study/ education at the university of cambridge. Took no degree from either university
Readers continue to find stimulus in his fusion of witty argument with passion, his dramatic rendering of complex states of mind, and his ability to make common words yield up rich poetic meaning.