Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions by Donne, John. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780195041736.

One of Donnes 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 Donnes life but to the lives of all people.