Songs and Sonnets References Songs and Sonnets work by Donne Ask Anything Homework Help Written by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them. The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica Britannica AI Ask Anything Learn about this topic in these articles: Death, Be Not Proud…in the first edition of Songs and Sonnets. This devotional lyric directly addresses death, raging defiantly against its perceived haughtiness. The theme, seen throughout Donne’s poetry, is that death is unable to corrupt the eternal soul. Read More…in the first edition of Songs and Sonnets. This devotional lyric directly addresses death, raging defiantly against its perceived haughtiness. The theme, seen throughout Donne’s poetry, is that death is unable to corrupt the eternal soul. Read More