The Sermons of John Donne, Volume VI

The Sermons of John Donne, edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter, Volume VI, encompasses Donne’s preaching between 1623 and early 1626, a turbulent period marked by the failure of the Spanish Match, the death of James I, the accession of Charles I, and the devastating plague of 1625. These sermons show Donne navigating a nation in anxiety and transition, while also processing his own near—fatal illness of late 1623. The *Devotions upon Emergent Occasions* arose directly from that...