Alchemy of Love

The classic of the English Renaissance, John Donn, like his contemporary William Shakespeare, turned out to be a poet for all times. The poems of Donna, they are addressed to a woman or to God, and still sound passionately and fascinatingly - the clots of poetic energy that have not been discharged over four centuries. The ardent young man in a wide -brimmed hat, the gloomy preacher in the dark cassock became, unknown like our contemporary. Words, images, intonations of Donna, preserving the secret of his special vitality and amazing ability to generate unwilling waves in space and time, became part of the poetry of the 20th century, influencing many poets of Europe - from Thomas Eliot to Joseph Brodsky.
In the present publication, the chosen poetry works of John Donna, as well as the book of prose Paradoxes and Problems are included. The texts are published in the translations of Grigory Kruzhkov, accompanied by his introductory article, essays and comments