On Death

Resumen del libro

Dean of St Paul's, John Donne was feted in his day not just as a poet but also as an inspired and inspiring preacher, and these four extended meditations on death are amongst his most powerful and dramatic writings. The magnificent 'Death's Duel' is published here alongside his Lent sermons for the two previous years (1628 and 1629), along with his Easter Day sermon of 1619, preached on the occasion of the King's sickness. Together they create a fascinating study of early seventeenth-century attitudes towards death.

Biografía del autor

John Donne, poeta, prosista y clérigo inglés, es considerado el más importante de los poetas metafísicos de la literatura universal. A excepción de Sonetos sagrados (1618), la mayor parte de su obra no se publicó hasta después de 1633, año en que falleció. En 1621 Jacobo I le nombró deán de la catedral de San Pablo, puesto que ocupó hasta sus últimos días.