'NO MAN IS AN ISLAND.'
DONNE IN CONTEMPORARY VELVET DONNE, John.
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, and severall Steps in my Sicknes ...
Third (and last lifetime) edition of Donne’s most familiar prose work, composed during his convalescence in 1623–4 from the ‘spotted Feaver’ which nearly killed him. It consists of twenty-three ‘Stationes, sive Periodi in Morbo’, each comprising a meditation, expostulation, and prayer.
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