Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

by Donne, John; Raspa, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780195041736
• ISBN10: 0195041739
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-04-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 eachconsisting 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.

Author Biography

Anthony Raspa is Professor of English at the Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Preface to the Oxford Edition	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
The Illness and the Occasion	p. xiii
Meditation and Metaphysics	p. xix
Seventeenth-Century Copies	p. xl
The Editions	p. xliv
The Text	p. lii
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions	p. 1
Commentary	p. 129
Selective Bibliography	p. 188
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