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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel by John Donne (1572 - 1631) .

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Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English theologian and writer John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness. The work consists of twenty-three parts ('devotions') describing each stage of the sickness. Each part is further divided into a Meditation, an Expostulation (or objection) , and a Prayer. The work is an excellent example of seventeenth century English spirituality and sometimes feels a bit dated. Yet much solid nourishment can be found. “Death’s Duel” is Donne’s last sermon prepared for presentation before the King during Lent; it is commonly seen as Donne’s own funeral oration. The biographical material is from Izaak Walton’s Lives. The most famous part of the Devotions is number XVII (17), containing these lines: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. (Summary by Wikipedia and David Wales)
  • Target completion date: 2013-May-01
  • Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23772
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    • Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_donne
    • Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devotions_upon_Emergent_Occasions
    • Number of sections (files) this project will have: 27
    • Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: no
    • Original publication date (if known): 1624
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    Genres for the project:
    advice, biography, literature, philosophy, psychology, religion

    Keywords that describe the book:
    theology; illness; death, Anglican, Death's Duel, seventeenth century
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Last edited by david wales on March 11th, 2013, 4:16 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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David,
I can MC this for you.
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MW is up.

You note in the intro:
The biographical material is from Izaak Walton’s Lives.
I know you've already read it once for Walton's Lives, but we can't use a file in multiple projects so I wanted to make sure that you planned to record it again.

And I've shortened your file name a bit.

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Hi MaryAnn, Yes, I know about the duplication policy and I have already recorded the biographical material again. Thanks,
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Hi Mary Ann, The file name is much better -- thank you! :D I wonder, since I have to enter it 27 times, if it could be made even shorter? Something like devotionsemergent which should be sufficient to name the file?
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david wales wrote:Hi Mary Ann, The file name is much better -- thank you! :D I wonder, since I have to enter it 27 times, if it could be made even shorter? Something like devotionsemergent which should be sufficient to name the file?
That would be find David, and better for both of us! :)

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