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DONNE. the oath of allegiance. This was his first publication. The next year he published a beautiful elegy on the death of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Drury, who was Donne's patron. This poem was followed in 1612 by a philosophical poem, called The Progress of the Soul. Donne soon began to look toward the Church for a career. In 1615 he was ordained in London, and the University of Cambridge made him a D.D. The next year he was presented to the livings of Keyston in Huntingdonshire and of Sevenoaks in Kent. He never resided in either parish, but he held Sevenoaks till his death. The same year he was appointed divinity reader of Lincoln's Inn, and in 1621 he was elected dean of Saint Paul's. He died March 31, 1631, and was buried in Saint Paul's. As a preacher, Donne at once attained eminence. His verse consists of satires, elegies, religious poems, epistles, and epigrams. Donne was among the first of a series of poets of the seventeenth century, who, under the infelicitous name of 'the metaphysical poets,' fill a conspicuous place in English literary history. The directness of thought, the naturalness of description, the rich abundance of genuine poetical feeling and imagery, now began to give way to cold and forced conceits, and elaborate exercises of the intellect. Yet it is generally acknowledged, especially in the ease of Donne, that, amid these subtleties, there is real poetry, and that of a high order. Especially beautiful are The Storm, The Calm, The Blossom, The Primrose, and Upon Parting with His Mistress. Donne's influence has been very great, for not only did he found a school of poetry which flourished till the advent of Dryden; but his intensity and obscurity passed into Browning. Donne published little, but from his voluminous MSS. a collection of the poems was published in 1633; and eighty sermons in 1640, to which was prefixed a charming Life by Isaak Walton. For his poems, consult the editions by Grosart, in Fuller's Worthies Library (London, 1872); and by Chambers, with introd. by Saintsbury (ib., 1806); for sermons: Alford, The Works of John Donne (London, 1839); for his life: Jessop (London, 1897); and Gosse, Life and Letters of John Donne (London, 1890).  DON′NELLY, (1831-1901). An American journalist, politician, and essayist of eccentric ingenuity. He was born in Philadelphia, studied law there, and was admitted to the bar in 1852, went to Minnesota in 1856, and was elected Lieutenant-Governor of that State in 1859 and 1861. From 1863 to 1869 he was a Representative in Congress. In 1873-78 he edited at Saint Louis The Antimonopolist, a weekly newspaper in support of the Greenback policy, and in 1876 was president of the Antimonopoly convention that nominated Peter Cooper for the Presidency of the United States. For many years he served as a Democrat in both Houses of the Legislature of Minnesota. He was nominated for the Vice-Presidency of the United States in 1898 by the People's Party, and in 1900 by the 'Middle-of-the-Road' wing of that party. Latterly he edited at Minneapolis a journal called The Representative. His Atlantis (1882) attracted attention in unscientific circles by its endeavor to prove that the island of that name once really existed, and was the original seat of civilization. Ragnarök (1883) undertook to explain the geologic formations of the drift age by cometary contact. The Great Cryptogram (1887) sought, by the application of an elaborate word-cipher to the First Folio, to furnish convincing evidence of the Baconian authorship of Shakespeare.  DON′NER, (1799-1875). A German translator of the classic poets. He was born at Krefeld, and, after studying at Tübingen, was professor at Stuttgart from 1843 to 1852, when he resigned his professorship to devote himself entirely to literary labors. He rendered the works of the Greek and Roman poets into German, in their original metres. Among his translations are those of the satires of Juvenal (1821); Persius (1822); and the tragedies of Sophocles (1838-39, 11th ed. 1889). This work, his masterpiece, is still the basis for almost all the metrical translations of Sophocles. It was followed by translations of Euripides (1841-53); Æschylus (1854); the Iliad (1855-57); the Odissey (1858-59); Pindar (1860); and Aristophanes (1861). His translations of Terence (1864), Plautus (1864-65), and Quintus Smyrnæus (1866) were less successful.  DONNER, (1692-1741). An Austrian sculptor, born at Esslingen. He received his artistic training chiefly at the Vienna Academy, was appointed to a post in the Imperial service in 1724, and in 1729 director of building to Prince Eszterházy. As a sculptor he endeavored to substitute for the over-elaborate and confused style of Bernini, then dominant in plastic art, a simpler method, combining the rococo and the antique. His works include two bas-reliefs in marble for Saint Stephen's Cathedral at Vienna, a fountain in lead for the court of the Old Town Hall, Vienna, and another for the New Market in that city.  DON′NITHORNE,. An aristocratic weakling in George Eliot's Adam Bede, the seducer of Hetty.  DON′NYBROOK (Ir., Church of Saint Broc). A village in Dublin County, Ireland, and a southeastern suburb of Dublin (Map: Ireland, E 3). Population, about 2000. It was formerly famous for its fair, instituted under King John, and held annually in August. Originally of two weeks' duration, in later times the fair lasted only a week. It was noted for its debauchery and fighting, and in 1855 was finally abolished. A Donnybrook fair has become a popular term for any scene of uproar. Consult B. Gray (pen-name of R. B. Coffin), Donnybrook Fair (New York, 1865).  DONOSO,, (1800-68). A Chilean bishop, born at Santiago. He became rector of the Seminario Conciliar in that city, and was subsequently appointed lecturer on theology and secretary of the theological faculty at the university, and judge of the ecclesiastical court. He was one of the founders of the Revista Católica, which was published for more than thirty years, and was distinguished for his versatility as a lecturer, author, and minister. He afterwards became Bishop of Ancud (1844-55) and Serena (1855-68). His publication entitled Instituciones de derecho canonico americano (1863) is regarded as a standard work.  DONOSO-CORTÉS,, , Marquis de <section end="Donoso-Cortés, Francisco Maria de la Salud" />