Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death's Duel

John Donne

• Essays
• Book language: English
• 180 pages

John Donne's Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions is a sequence of prose meditations, expostulations and prayers written during a serious illness. Together with Death's Duel, his final sermon, it reflects on sickness, mortality, faith and human interdependence. Listeners may value its intimate devotional voice and enduring phrases about the bell that tolls for us all.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.