John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations

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University of California Press, 2003 - 244 Seiten
The glory of John Donne's prose at its best is very different from that of his verse, but is equal to it; and there can be no question that his best prose is in his sermons. His sense of form and arrangement, his psychological insight, his differences of mood and emphasis, and his religious fervor will make this selection of ten sermons particularly interesting to the attentive reader familiar with Donne's poetry.

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INTRODUCTION
1
Psalms 11 3 The First Sermon Preached to King
73
Psalms 63 7 The Second Prebend Sermon preached
94
Luke 23 34 Preached to the Nobility undated
115
John 1 8 Preached at St Pauls upon Christmas
129
John 11 35 Preached at Whitehall the first Friday
157
Isaiah 7 14 and Matthew 1 23 Preached at
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John 11 21 Preached at the Funeral of Sir William
219
PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS
241
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Poet and churchman John Donne was born in London in 1572. He attended both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, but did not receive a degree from either university. He studied law at Lincoln's Inn, London, in 1592, and was appointed private secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, Keeper of the Great Seal, in 1598. He became an Anglican priest in 1615 and was appointed royal chaplain later that year. In 1621 he was named dean of St. Paul's Cathedral. Donne prepared for his own death by leaving his sickbed to deliver his own funeral sermon, "Death's Duel", and then returned home to have a portrait of himself made in his funeral shroud. He died in London on March 31, 1631.

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