Editing John Donne (section)

===Career and later life===
In 1602, Donne was elected as a member of parliament (MP) for the [[Brackley (UK Parliament constituency)|constituency of Brackley]], but the post was not a paid position.{{sfn|Colclough|2011}} Queen [[Elizabeth I]] died in 1603, being succeeded by King [[James VI]] of Scotland as King James I of England. The fashion for coterie poetry of the period gave Donne a means to seek [[patronage]]. Many of his poems were written for wealthy friends or patrons, especially for MP Sir Robert Drury of [[Hawsted]] (1575–1615), whom he met in 1610 and who became his chief patron, furnishing him and his family an apartment in his large house in [[Drury Lane]].{{sfn|Durant|Durant|1961|p=154}}

In 1610 and 1611, Donne wrote two [[anti-Catholic]] [[polemic]]s: ''[[Pseudo-Martyr]]'' and ''[[Ignatius His Conclave]]'' for Morton.{{sfn|Colclough|2011}} He then wrote two Anniversaries, ''[[s:An Anatomy of the World—The First Anniversery|An Anatomy of the World]]'' (1611) and ''Of the Progress of the Soul''<ref name="poet_Ofth"/> (1612) for Drury.

Donne sat as an MP again, this time for [[Taunton (UK Parliament constituency)|Taunton]], in the [[Addled Parliament]] of 1614. Though he attracted five appointments within its business he made no recorded speech.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ferris |first1=John P. |title=DONNE, John (1572–1631), of Drury Lane, Westminster; formerly of Mitcham, Surr. |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/donne-john-1572-1631 |website=historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=5 November 2021}}</ref> Although King James was pleased with Donne's work, he refused to reinstate him at court and instead urged him to take holy orders.{{sfn|Kunitz|Haycraft|1952|pp=156–158}} At length, Donne acceded to the king's wishes, and in 1615 was an ordained priest in the [[Church of England]].{{sfn|Durant|Durant|1961|p=154}}

In 1615, Donne was awarded an honorary doctorate in divinity from [[Cambridge University]]. He became a [[Ecclesiastical Household|Royal Chaplain]] in the same year. He became a reader of divinity at Lincoln's Inn in 1616,{{sfn|Colclough|2011}} where he served in the chapel as minister until 1622.<ref name="linc_"/> In 1618, he became chaplain to [[James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle|Viscount Doncaster]], who was an ambassador to the [[:Category:Princes in the German Empire|princes of Germany]]. Donne did not return to England until 1620.{{sfn|Jokinen|2006}} In 1621, Donne was made [[Dean of St Paul's]], a leading and well-paid position in the Church of England, which he held until his death in 1631.{{sfn|Colclough|2011}}

In 1616 he was granted the living as rector of two parishes, [[Keyston]] in [[Huntingdonshire]] and [[Sevenoaks]] in Kent, and in 1621 of [[Blunham]], in [[Bedfordshire]], all held until his death.<ref name="Venn"/> Blunham Parish Church has an imposing stained glass window commemorating Donne, designed by Derek Hunt. During Donne's period as dean his daughter Lucy died, aged eighteen. In late November and early December 1623 he suffered a nearly fatal illness, thought to be either [[typhus]] or a combination of a cold followed by a period of fever.{{sfn|Colclough|2011}}

During his convalescence he wrote a series of meditations and prayers on health, pain and sickness that were published as a book in 1624 under the title of ''[[Devotions upon Emergent Occasions]]''. One of these meditations, [[s:Meditation XVII|Meditation XVII]], contains the well-known phrases "No man is an ''Iland''" (often modernised as "[[No man is an island (disambiguation)|No man is an island]]<!--intentional link to DAB page-->") and "[[For Whom the Bell Tolls (disambiguation)|...for whom the ''bell'' tolls]]". In 1624, he became [[vicar]] of [[St Dunstan-in-the-West]], and in 1625 a [[prolocutor]] to [[Charles I of England|Charles I]].{{sfn|Colclough|2011}} He earned a reputation as an eloquent preacher. 160 of his sermons have survived, including [[Death's Duel]], his famous [[s:Death's Duell, or A Consolation to the Soul, against the dying Life and the living Death of the Body|sermon]] delivered at the [[Palace of Whitehall]] before King [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] in February 1631.