Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

by John Donne

Publisher:

Text Creation Partnership

, 1624

Overview

Get a first-hand look at English life and literature in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. Comprising primary source historical documents and literary works, this collection provides insight into English literature, politics, and culture.

Product Details

• Title: Devotions vpon emergent occasions and seuerall steps in my sicknes digested into I. Meditations vpon our humane condition, 2. Expostulations, and debatements
• Author: John Donne
• Publisher: Text Creation Partnership
• Print Publication Date: 1624
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Meditations
• Resource ID: LLS:EEBOA20631
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T20:16:01Z

About John Donne

John Donne was an English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest who is considered a prominent representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works are notable for their mimetic and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially as compared to that of his contemporaries.