The Sermons of John Donne, Volume VIII

The Sermons of John Donne, edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter, Volume VIII, captures Donne in one of the most somber and inward-looking periods of his ministry. Preached between 1627 and 1629, these sermons reflect the shock of repeated bereavements—his daughter Lucy, his patroness Lucy, Countess of Bedford, his lifelong friend Magdalen Danvers (formerly Herbert), and his confidant Sir Henry Goodyer. With no poetry and only a few letters surviving from these years, the sermons...