<P> After Donne's death, a number of poetical tributes were paid to him, of which one of the principal (and most difficult to follow) was his friend Lord Herbert of Cherbury's "Elegy for Doctor Donne". Posthumous editions of Donne's poems were accompanied by several "Elegies upon the Author" over the course of the next two centuries . Six of these were written by fellow churchmen, others by such courtly writers as Thomas Carew, Sidney Godolphin and Endymion Porter . In 1963 came Joseph Brodsky's "The Great Elegy for John Donne". </P> <P> Beginning in the 20th century, several historical novels appeared taking as their subject various episodes in Donne's life . His courtship of Anne More is the subject of Elizabeth Gray Vining's Take Heed of Loving Me: A novel about John Donne (1963) and Maeve Haran's The Lady and the Poet (2010). Both characters also make interspersed appearances in Mary Novik's Conceit (2007), where the main focus is on their rebellious daughter Pegge . English treatments include Garry O'Connor's Death's Duel: a novel of John Donne (2015), which deals with the poet as a young man . He also plays a significant role in Christie Dickason's The Noble Assassin (2012), a novel based on the life of Donne's patron and (the author claims) his lover, Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford . Finally there is Bryan Crockett's Love's Alchemy: a John Donne Mystery (2015), in which the poet, blackmailed into service in Robert Cecil's network of spies, attempts to avert political disaster and at the same time outwit Cecil . </P> <P> There were musical settings of Donne's lyrics even during his lifetime . These included Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger ("So, so, leave off this last lamenting kisse" in his 1609 Ayres); John Cooper ("The Message"); Henry Lawes ("Break of Day"); "John Dowland (" Break of Day" and "To ask for all thy love"); and settings of "A Hymn to God the Father" by John Hilton the younger and Pelham Humfrey (1688). After the 17th century there were no more until the start of the 20th century with Havergal Brian ("A nocturnal on St Lucy's Day", first performed in 1905), Eleanor Everest Freer ("Break of Day, published in 1905) and Walford Davies (" The Cross ", 1909) among the earliest . In 1945, Benjamin Britten set nine of Donne's Holy Sonnets in his song cycle for voice and piano The Holy Sonnets of John Donne . Lieder.net currently lists 162 settings of 62 texts by Donne . One not recorded there is a version of the song "Go and Catch a Falling Star" on John Renbourn's debut album John Renbourn (1966) in which the last line is altered to "False, ere I count one, two, three" </P> <P> In 1954, Priaulx Rainier set prose texts by Donne to music in her Cycle for Declamation for solo voice . On 1992's album Duality, the English Neoclassical Dark Wave band In The Nursery used the entirety of Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" for the track "Mecciano and an augmented version of "A Fever" for the track "Corruption ." </P>

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