Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

by John Donne

Overview

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions by Iohn Donne, Deane of S. Pauls, London. Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, or in full Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes, is a prose work by the English metaphysical poet and cleric in the Church of England John Donne, published in 1624. It covers death, rebirth and the Elizabethan concept of sickness as a visit from God, reflecting internal sinfulness. The Devotions were written in December 1623 as Donne recovered from a serious but unknown illness - believed to be relapsing fever or typhus. Having come close to death, he described the illness he had suffered from and his thoughts throughout his recovery with "near super-human speed and concentration". Registered by 9 January, and published soon after, the Devotions is one of only seven works attributed to Donne which were printed during his lifetime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781722679767
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	07/09/2018
Pages:	76
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.16(d)

About the Author

John Donne

Table of Contents

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

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"[This edition] adds something to our real wealth. The text that Raspa has established must be as close to finality as anything can be, the bibliographical history of the work is minute and exhaustive, the notes packed with scholarly information, the erudition of the introduction scarcely to be surpassed."—Times Literary Supplement

"[This edition] adds something to our real wealth. The text that Raspa has established must be as close to finality as anything can be, the bibliographical history of the work is minute and exhaustive, the notes packed with scholarly information, the erudition of the introduction scarcely to be surpassed."—Times Literary Supplement

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