October 14th, 2020 • 15 mins 54 secs • Download (11.2 MB) • Link with Timestamp
This week we look at one of John Donne's Holy Sonnets from the seventeenth century. This famous poem (#14, "Batter my heart") turns a poetic tradition of love and longing to religious ends, earnestly seeking God and questioning whether union with God will ever be achieved.