Death’s Duell (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Donne
- First Published: 1632
- Type of Work: Sermon
- Genres: Nonfiction, Didactic literature, Religion and spirituality
- Subjects: God, Ministry or ministers, England or English people, Seventeenth century, Christianity, Death or dying, Life, philosophy of, Resurrection
Critical Evaluation:
About a year prior to his death John Donne preached his last sermon before the king at Whitehall on February 12, 1630. His publisher, Richard Redmer, who printed the first edition in 1632 of “Death’s Duell, or, A Consolation to the Soule, Against the Dying Life, and Living Death of the Body,” said that it was called “The Doctors Owne Funerall Sermon.” The text is from Psalm 68, the twentieth verse: And unto God the Lord belong the issues from death.
The language of the sermon is as imaginative, musical, and perverse as that of Donne’s...
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See Also:
John Donne (Cyclopedia of World Authors)John Donne (Poetry)John Donne (Dictionary of World Biography)
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