Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
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History and Significance
John Donne's Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions is the source of the well-known quotation “No man is an island…” and the source of the title to Ernest Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls. Written while he was convalescing from a serious illness, Devotions remains a significant exposition of religious sentiment in England during the same time period of the King James Bible and powerful work in their own right, aside from specific theology.
Contents
- First Sign of Sickness
- Senses and Faculties Fail
- The Patient Takes His Bed
- The Physician Is Sent For
- The Physician Comes
- The Physician Is Afraid
- The Physician Calls Others
- The King Sends His Own Physician
- Their Presription
- The Disease Progresses
- Keeping Disease from the Heart
- Drawing Vapours from the Head
- Appearance of Spots
- The Critical Days
- I Sleep Not Day nor Night
- Bells of the Nearby Church
- The Bell Tolls “Thou Must Die”
- The Bell Rings Our Death
- Signs of Recovery
- Purging
- Gods Calls Me Out of My Bed
- The Root of the Disease
- Danger of Relapse
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