Name the poet who composed the following poems:

1. A. 'A Hymn to God the Father'
2. B. 'Elegy on Mistress Bulstrode'
3. C. 'Hymn to God my God, in my Sickness'
4. D. 'A Valediction: of Weeping'

1. AWilliam Shakespeare
2. BChristopher Marlowe
3. CJohn Donne
4. DBen Jonson

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Correct answer: C. John Donne

Explanation

All four are Donne's: two late devotional hymns (the 'Sickness' hymn is dated 1623 or 1631), an elegy for Cecilia Bulstrode (1609) of the Countess of Bedford's circle, and a Songs and Sonnets valediction built on the conceit of tears as coins and globes.