Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Name: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Author: John Donne

John Donne (1572–1631) was an English poet and cleric, dean of St Paul's Cathedral from 1621. After a youth of love poetry, travel, and frustrated ambition, he took orders at James I's urging and became the most admired preacher of his age. Our library holds his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions — including the meditation that 'no man is an island' — his final sermon Death's Duel, and other sermons.

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First published: 1624
Category: Devotional
Length: 59k words · about 4 hours
Chapters: 14
Narration: 🎧 Volunteer Readers

About this book

John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, written during a grave illness in 1623 and published in 1624, is a classic of meditation in sickness. Following the course of his fever, Donne turns each stage of the illness into prayer and self-examination. It contains his famous meditation that no man is an island, entire of itself.