One of Donne's 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 Donne's life but to the lives of all people.
| ISBN | 9780195041736 |
| Autor(a) | Donne, John |
| Editora | Oxford University Press - USA |
| Ano de edição | 1987 |
| Páginas | 248 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |