| Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Contributor(s): Donne, John (Author), Raspa, Anthony (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0195041739 ISBN-13: 9780195041736 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $77.22 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1987 Annotation: One of Donne's most important and haunting works in prose, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions was composed in less than a month, during an illness that nearly cost the writer his life. Donne divided the book into twenty-three sections, each corresponding to a stage of his illness and each consisting of a meditation, an expostulation, and a prayer. Filled with powerful images of mortality and immortality that have moved readers throughout the centuries, it provides a coherent spiritual message relevant not only to Donne's life but to the lives of all people. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Devotional - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 242 |
| LCCN: 86023504 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.46" W x 9" (0.86 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Religious Orientation - Christian - Topical - New Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One of Donne's most important and haunting works in prose, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions was composed in less than a month, during an illness that nearly cost the writer his life. Donne divided the book into twenty-three sections, each corresponding to a stage of his illness and each consisting of a meditation, an expostulation, and a prayer. Filled with powerful images of mortality and immortality that have moved readers throughout the centuries, it provides a coherent spiritual message relevant not only to Donne's life but to the lives of all people. |