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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions: Together with Death’s Duel

ByJohn Donne

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne, who dedicated it to the future King Charles I. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or relapsing fever. (Donne does not clearly identify the disease in his text.) He describes this as a "preternatural birth, in returning to life, from this sickness". The work consists of twenty-three parts ('devotions') describing each stage of the sickness. Each part is further divided into a Meditation, an Expostulation, and a Prayer.

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Publication Date
Aug 24, 2012
Language
English
ISBN
9781300121060
Category
Fiction
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
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By (author): John Donne

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EPUB

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