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John Donne

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"The Triple Fool" is a poem by early modern metaphysical poet John Donne. This poem is one of Donne's experiments with form, as it consists of two eleven-line stanzas with inconsistent lengths. It explores the relationship between grief and artistic production. Like all Donne's surviving poem's, it was first published in his 1633 posthumous collection titled simply Poems. It was likely authored in 1631, near the end of the poet's life. 

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