Possible Clues:

• 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' poet
• 'Holy Sonnets' writer
• 'It tolls for thee' poet
• Elizabethan sonneteer John
• ''Death be not proud'' poet John
• 'Satires' poet
• Poet is finished, they say
• Writer of poetry performed for audience
• John --, English metaphysical poet (1573-1631)
• John who wrote 'Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies'