Possession on Death Be Not Proud: “Ash on his deathbed "had become obsessed by the poems of John Donne, had recited them to the ceiling"; footnoted as Donne, "Death Be Not Proud," Divine Poems.”
How to Be a Heroine on Holy Sonnets: “(When I read the ‘Holy Sonnets’ now, though not insensible to their passion and wonder, I also think how much I’d love to open a Batter My Heart Chip Shop.) So I got it, about the Jesus Prayer.”
Possession on Love's Alchemy: “Mummy Possest is of course a quotation from John Donne, 'Love's Alchemy.' 'Hope not for minde in women; at their best/Sweetnesse and wit, they are but Mummy, Possest.'”
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea on Sappho to Philaenis: “Donne's wonderful verse epistle 'Sappho to Philaenis' is the first English poem to describe what Sappho did with her girlfriend”