Holy Delight: Typology, Numerology, and Autobiography in Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
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Holy Delight: Typology, Numerology, and Autobiography in Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
By (Author) Kate Gartner Frost
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Prayers and liturgical material
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary studies: general
242
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Paperback
204
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
28g
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Composed on the occasion of the poet's near-fatal bout with typhus in 1623, the Devotions contains the essential germ of John Donne's mature thought, embodied in obscurely structured verse/prose divisions. Because of its seeming digressiveness, critics have struggled to understand this most significant of Renaissance texts as a whole. Kate Gartner
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"A comprehensive and detailed study of one of Donne's most complicated works."--Religion & Literature
