Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781616402914)

In addition to the writer's 1624 collection of meditations, debates with God, and prayers on the human condition-particularly earthly physical sickness and health-this volume contains the 1631 work "Death's Duel," a sermon said to be his own funeral oration, which he preached shortly before his own death. Readers of 17th-century literature, religious devotionals, and ponderers of human mortality are sure to find something profound in this fascinating, famous work. British metaphysical poet JOHN DONNE (1572-1631), renowned for his satires on English society, wrote this prose work in the latter part of his life, after he became an Anglican priest.

Author: John Donne
ISBN-10: 1616402911
ISBN-13: 9781616402914
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2010
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d