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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel: With the Life of Dr. John Donne by Izaak Walton
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by John Donne, Andrew Motion (Preface by)
John Donne
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel: With the Life of Dr. John Donne by Izaak Walton
272
by John Donne, Andrew Motion (Preface by)
John Donne
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Overview
John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne's life and writing that, if less well known, is no less profound and beautiful.
Born into an aristocratic Catholic family, Donne joined the Church of England at the age of twenty-one out of fear of persecution. At the age of forty-three, he gave up his preoccupations with secular prestige and devoted himself utterly to religion. It was eight years later when, battered with fever, the deaths of his beloved wife, several of his children, and many dear lifelong friends, he composed Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. There is both trauma and great drama in this extended meditation on the meaning of mortality, the possibility of salvation, and the true nature of the passage of eternal life. With a new introduction by poet and biographer Andrew Motion, one of the most revered books of Christian devotion speaks to us again of the higher aspirations of man and the always-present possibility of a relationship with God.
This long out of print edition also contains Donne's last sermon, "Death's Duel" as well as the short colorful biography of him written by his contemporary Izaak Walton.
Born into an aristocratic Catholic family, Donne joined the Church of England at the age of twenty-one out of fear of persecution. At the age of forty-three, he gave up his preoccupations with secular prestige and devoted himself utterly to religion. It was eight years later when, battered with fever, the deaths of his beloved wife, several of his children, and many dear lifelong friends, he composed Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. There is both trauma and great drama in this extended meditation on the meaning of mortality, the possibility of salvation, and the true nature of the passage of eternal life. With a new introduction by poet and biographer Andrew Motion, one of the most revered books of Christian devotion speaks to us again of the higher aspirations of man and the always-present possibility of a relationship with God.
This long out of print edition also contains Donne's last sermon, "Death's Duel" as well as the short colorful biography of him written by his contemporary Izaak Walton.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780375705489 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 12/07/1999 |
Edition description: | 1 ED |
Pages: | 272 |
Sales rank: | 851,779 |
Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
John Donne was born into a Catholic family in 1572. After a conventional education at Hart Hall, Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn, he took part in the Earl of Essex's expedition to the Azores in 1597. He secretly married Anne More in December 1601 and was imprisoned by her father, Sir George More, in the Fleet two months later. He was ordained as a priest in January 1615 and took a doctorate of divinity at Cambridge the same year. He was made dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London in 1621, a position he held until his death in 1631. He is famous for the sermons he preached in his later years as well as for his poems.
Andrew Motion is the author of three biographies and a number of books of poetry. He served as Poet Laureate of Great Britain from 1999 to 2009, and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Motion serves as head of the literature panel of the Arts Council of England and frequently broadcasts on the BBC.
Andrew Motion is the author of three biographies and a number of books of poetry. He served as Poet Laureate of Great Britain from 1999 to 2009, and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Motion serves as head of the literature panel of the Arts Council of England and frequently broadcasts on the BBC.
Table of Contents
About the Vintage Spiritual Classics | vii | |
Preface to the Vintage Spiritual Classics Edition | xi | |
Chronology of the Life of John Donne | xxiii | |
Note on the Texts | xxxiii | |
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions | ||
The Stations of the Sickness | 1 | |
1. | The First Alteration, the First Grudging, of the Sickness | 3 |
2. | The Strength and the Function of the Senses, and Other Faculties, Change and Fail | 8 |
3. | The Patient Takes His Bed | 13 |
4. | The Physician Is Sent For | 19 |
5. | The Physician Comes | 26 |
6. | The Physician Is Afraid | 32 |
7. | The Physician Desires to Have Others Joined with Him | 39 |
8. | The King Sends His Own Physician | 46 |
9. | Upon Their Consultation They Prescribe | 52 |
10. | They Find the Disease to Steal on Insensibly, and Endeavor to Meet with It So | 58 |
11. | They Use Cordials, to Keep the Venom and Malignity of the Disease from the Heart | 64 |
12. | They Apply Pigeons, to Draw the Vapors from the Head | 71 |
13. | The Sickness Declares the Infection and Malignity Thereof by Spots | 78 |
14. | The Physicians Observe These Accidents to Have Fallen upon the Critical Days | 83 |
15. | I Sleep Not Day nor Night | 91 |
16. | From the Bells of the Church Adjoining, I Am Daily Remembered of My Burial in the Funerals of Others | 97 |
17. | Now, This Bell Tolling Softly for Another, Says to Me: Thou Must Die | 102 |
18. | The Bell Rings Out, and Tells Me in Him, That I Am Dead | 108 |
19. | At Last the Physicians, After a Long and Stormy Voyage, See Land: They Have So Good Signs of the Concoction of the Disease, as That They May Safely Proceed to Purge | 116 |
20. | Upon These Indications of Digested Matter, They Proceed to Purge | 125 |
21. | God Prospers Their Practice, and He, by Them, Calls Lazarus out of His Tomb, Me out of My Bed | 132 |
22. | The Physicians Consider the Root and Occasion, the Embers, and Coals, and Fuel of the Disease, and Seek to Purge or Correct That | 139 |
23. | They Warn Me of the Fearful Danger of Relapsing | 145 |
Death's Duel | 153 | |
The Life of Dr. John Donne (1640) | 179 | |
Notes | 225 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 233 |
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