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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the handful of poetry books that I own. To be honest, if I understood more of Donne's context, I would most likely rate it higher. When understood, I found his poems to be very romantic and honest. If translated into my dumb language, some themes would be:<br/><br/>Hey Baby, Why Wai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5106200">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first copy of John Donne's poetry. I picked my copy up in Berkeley in the 1980's because I'd heard A Valediction Forbidding Mourning and recognized it as one of the greatest poems ever written.<br/><br/>I would read these on my own, now and again, and it led me to more and more of his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21927678">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Back in 1998 I was a hopeless romantic. Hence, I read and memorized a lot of Donne's poems.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I could read this book over and over again for the rest of my life.     ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[His love poems are the best. ]]></body>
    
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