Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions & Death's Duel (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Holy Rites and Sermons on Death and RebirthBy John Donne
Length7h 44m
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions & Death's Duel brings together John Donne's most searching prose on sickness, mortality, and salvation. Composed during a grave illness in 1623, the Devotions arrange bodily crisis into meditations, expostulations, and prayers, transforming fever into spiritual inquiry. Their style is characteristically metaphysical: learned, dramatic, paradoxical, and intensely self-scrutinizing. Death's Duel, Donne's final sermon, extends this meditation with grave eloquence, placing personal extinction within the Christian drama of resurrection. Donne's life uniquely prepared him for such writing. Born into a recusant Catholic family, he became a daring love poet, a lawyer, courtier, Anglican convert, and eventually Dean of St Paul's Cathedral. His career was marked by ambition, bereavement, religious controversy, and bodily suffering. These pressures shaped a mind alert to sin, grace, human interdependence, and the fragile boundary between flesh and spirit. This volume is recommended to readers interested in devotional literature, seventeenth-century prose, and the intellectual power of Christian meditation. It rewards close reading, not only for its famous insights—"No man is an island"—but for its profound confrontation with vulnerability, community, and hope.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length7 hrs 44 mins
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Publish dateJun 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26IV. EXPOSTULATION.
2Introduction
27IV. PRAYER.
3Synopsis
28V. Solus adest.
4Historical Context
29The physician comes
5Author Biography
30V. MEDITATION.
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6Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions & Death's Duel
31V. EXPOSTULATION.
7Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and seuerall steps in my Sicknes.
32V. PRAYER.
8I Insultus morbi primus.
33VI. Metuit.
9The first Alteration, the first Grudging, of the Sickness.
34The physician is afraid.
10I. MEDITATION.
35VI. MEDITATION.
11I. EXPOSTULATION.
36VI. EXPOSTULATION.
12I. PRAYER.
37VI. PRAYER.
13II. Post actio læsa.
38VII. Socios sibi jungier instat.
14The Strength and the function of the senses, and other faculties, change and fail.
39The physician desires to have others joined with him.
15II. MEDITATION.
40VII. MEDITATION.
16II. EXPOSTULATION.
41VII. EXPOSTULATION.
17II. PRAYER.
42VII. PRAYER.
18III. Decubitus sequitur tandem.
43VIII. Et Rex ipse suum mittit.
19The patient takes his bed.
44The King sends his own physician.
20III. MEDITATION.
45VIII. MEDITATION.
21III. EXPOSTULATION.
46VIII. EXPOSTULATION.
22III. PRAYER.
47VIII. PRAYER.
23IV. Medicusque vocatur.
48IX. Medicamina scribunt.
24The physician is sent for.
49Upon their consultation they prescribe.
25IV. MEDITATION.
50IX. MEDITATION.
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