On John Donne

The title of this entry doesn't, in fact, rhyme as it might appear since Donne is pronounced as the word "done". This is evident in the last couplet of his poem To Sir Henry Wotton: "I thoroughly love; but if myself I've won / To know my rules, I have, and you have DONNE." This is the same piece from which comes the often misquoted line "Be thine own palace, or the world's thy gaol."

Wikipedia says that Donne was a "noumenous" poet, though that word doesn't exist; it seems to be based on noumenon, though I suppose the adjective for that would be noumenonous. I miss being able to middle click on the close tab button to restore them. I wonder if Donne had what Keats calls negative capability, of Gelassenheit... I wonder how many terms for this same quality there are?