An English poet who lived from 1572-1631. Donne is noted for his sonnets and elegies, and according to the harsh critique of Nicolas Greene during the Elizabethan age, Donne is a “mountebank” who wraps up “his lack of meaning in hard words.” Woolf, too, appears to share this particular criticism, and she frequently pokes fun at Orlando’s own use of complicated language in poetry. As Orlando grows as a writer, she begins to dislike poets that don’t just say what they mean.