Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0195041739
ISBN 13
9780195041736
Category
Main Collection
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Publication Year
1987
Publisher
Pages
248
Description
One of Donne's most important and haunting works in prose, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions was composed in less than a month, during an illness that nearly cost the writer his life. Donne divided the book into twenty-three sections, each corresponding to a stage of his illness and each consisting of a meditation, an expostulation, and a prayer. Filled with powerful images of mortality and immortality that have moved readers throughout the centuries, it provides a coherent spiritual message relevant not only to Donne's life but to the lives of all people. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
