It must have been my donation!

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It was, of course, my two pounds, or whatever it was, that put this over the top. But I'm so happy to report that the John Donne portrait in the National Portrait Gallery has been saved.

http://www.artfund.org/news/441

Don't you love his long fingers? And such a big nose... oh, Mr. Donne, no wonder so many of your poems were about sex...

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maybe it's being *cough* of a certain age (both of us) that adds insight? For all that his early poetry in particular is "young man's" coterie writing, ie showing off his knowledge and prowess to all his friends, AND that many of the component parts - even plot lines - are cribbed from Ovid (I could give you chapter and verse...), looking at his portrait makes me think that he knows what he's writing about :)

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maybe it's being *cough* of a certain age (both of us) that adds insight?

You'd think so, wouldn't you? The worst offender was the Wife of Bath, who is defintely a woman of a certain age, who has lived rather more than I have by all accounts.

But yes, I think he knows what he's talking about, anad suspect that as I keep rereading his work, I'll think that even more. I don't believe I could ever tire of reading Donne.