The bedchamber in poetry of this period is a place of deception, power and pleasure. John Donne’s poems are often staged in bedrooms. In ‘The Apparition’, he vows to wreck his mistress’s future relationship by appearing as a ghost at her bedside. The opening is characteristically dramatic:
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