Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions And Death's Duel: With The Life Of Dr. John Donne By Izaak Walton
John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne's life and writing that, if less well known, is no less profound and beautiful. \ Born into an aristocratic Catholic family, Donne joined the Church of England at the age of twenty-one out of fear of persecution. At the age of forty-three, he gave up his preoccupations with secular prestige and devoted himself utterly to religion. It was eight years later when, battered...
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John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne's life and writing that, if less well known, is no less profound and beautiful. Born into an aristocratic Catholic family, Donne joined the Church of England at the age of twenty-one out of fear of persecution. At the age of forty-three, he gave up his preoccupations with secular prestige and devoted himself utterly to religion. It was eight years later when, battered with fever, the deaths of his beloved wife, several of his children, and many dear lifelong friends, he composed Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. There is both trauma and great drama in this extended meditation on the meaning of mortality, the possibility of salvation, and the true nature of the passage of eternal life. With a new introduction by poet and biographer Andrew Motion, one of the most revered books of Christian devotion speaks to us again of the higher aspirations of man and the always-present possibility of a relationship with God. This long out of print edition also contains Donne's last sermon, "Death's Duel" as well as the short colorful biography of him written by his contemporary Izaak Walton.
About the Vintage Spiritual ClassicsviiPreface to the Vintage Spiritual Classics EditionxiChronology of the Life of John DonnexxiiiNote on the TextsxxxiiiDevotions Upon Emergent OccasionsThe Stations of the Sickness11.The First Alteration, the First Grudging, of the Sickness32.The Strength and the Function of the Senses, and Other Faculties, Change and Fail83.The Patient Takes His Bed134.The Physician Is Sent For195.The Physician Comes266.The Physician Is Afraid327.The Physician Desires to Have Others Joined with Him398.The King Sends His Own Physician469.Upon Their Consultation They Prescribe5210.They Find the Disease to Steal on Insensibly, and Endeavor to Meet with It So5811.They Use Cordials, to Keep the Venom and Malignity of the Disease from the Heart6412.They Apply Pigeons, to Draw the Vapors from the Head7113.The Sickness Declares the Infection and Malignity Thereof by Spots7814.The Physicians Observe These Accidents to Have Fallen upon the Critical Days8315.I Sleep Not Day nor Night9116.From the Bells of the Church Adjoining, I Am Daily Remembered of My Burial in the Funerals of Others9717.Now, This Bell Tolling Softly for Another, Says to Me: Thou Must Die10218.The Bell Rings Out, and Tells Me in Him, That I Am Dead10819.At Last the Physicians, After a Long and Stormy Voyage, See Land: They Have So Good Signs of the Concoction of the Disease, as That They May Safely Proceed to Purge11620.Upon These Indications of Digested Matter, They Proceed to Purge12521.God Prospers Their Practice, and He, by Them, Calls Lazarus out of His Tomb, Me out of My Bed13222.The Physicians Consider the Root and Occasion, the Embers, and Coals, and Fuel of the Disease, and Seek to Purge or Correct That13923.They Warn Me of the Fearful Danger of Relapsing145Death's Duel153The Life of Dr. John Donne (1640)179Notes225Suggestions for Further Reading233
