This volume collects together four of celebrated poet and preacher John Donne’s most passionate sermons on death.
Dean of St Paul’s, John Donne was fêted in his day not just as a poet but also as an inspired and energetic preacher, and these four extended meditations on death are amongst his most powerful and dramatic writings. The magnificent
‘Death’s Duel’ is published here alongside his Lent sermons for the two previous years (1629 and 1630), along with his Easter Day sermon of 1619, preached on the occasion of the King’s sickness.
Together they create a fascinating study of early seventeenth-century attitudes towards death.
Dean of St Paul’s, John Donne was fêted in his day not just as a poet but also as an inspired and energetic preacher, and these four extended meditations on death are amongst his most powerful and dramatic writings. The magnificent
‘Death’s Duel’ is published here alongside his Lent sermons for the two previous years (1629 and 1630), along with his Easter Day sermon of 1619, preached on the occasion of the King’s sickness.
Together they create a fascinating study of early seventeenth-century attitudes towards death.
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Edward Docx is a novelist. His highly-praised first book, The Calligrapher (2004), was translated into seven languages.His latest novel, Self Help (2007), which explores the fortunes of an Anglo-Russian family, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was longlisted for the Man Booker.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 104 ● ISBN 9781843916277 ● File size 0.4 MB ● Publisher Hesperus Press Ltd. ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2024 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 9343678 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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