Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

A series of meditations and prayers by John Donne, an English Jacobean poet, preacher and a major representative of the metaphysical poets of the 16th-17th centuries. The experience of drawing near to death laid the foundation of this work. The author, recovering from a serious illness, reflects upon health, pain, and sickness. The work consists of twenty-three parts corresponding to each stage of the illness, each part including “meditation”, “exhortation” and “prayer”. Here we meet magnetism,