He found himself recalling a snippet of verse by John donne: O how feeble is man's power, That if good fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall!
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover
Professor William Lyon Phelps in the preface to his The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century claims that the influence of donne has never been greater than at present.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
English poets, for example, were arranged by Pope and Gray as followers of Chaucer, Spenser, donne, Dryden, and so forth; and, in later days, we have such literary genera as are indicated by the names classic and romantic or realist and idealist, covering characteristic tendencies of the various historical groups.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
