Author

John Donne

Portrait of John Donne.
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Sermons and Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

1624 / 1631 · Renaissance Early Modern · Sermons

Donne's Sermons and Devotions upon Emergent Occasions bring the metaphysical imagination into pulpit and sickroom. The sermons, including Death's Duel, display a preacher fascinated by mortality, judgment, resurrection, the body, and the unstable boundary between private self and Christian community.