Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Together with Death's Duel (Annotated)

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-John Donne (1572-1631) is one of the great English metaphysical poets and religious preachers. Love, religion and death are characteristic themes of his work, and his memorable eloquence. In Spain, two volumes have just been published that recall his teaching and his great influence throughout these four centuries. This is the first full edition of Devotions and Mourning for Death, the latter being the sermon he gave to the king two months before he died and considered his anticipated funeral sermon. This edition includes a preface by Carlos Zanón, a prologue by Andrew Motion and an appendix with The Life of John Donne, by Izaak Walton, with the translation by Jaime Collyer. The second book is his Erotic Poems, a compilation of his most earthy and delicate sensibility and sensuality. Both works are published by Navona Editoral. In scoop passages from Duel for Death and two of his best erotic poems. In addition, the beginning of one of his most famous texts included in Devotions: Nunc Lento sonitu dicunt, morieris. Now this bell that gently tolls for another tells me: it is you who must die, who in one of its passages says the famous phrase: No man is an island, nor is he enough of himself. (...) The death of any man diminishes me because I am part of humanity;