Selection of Divine Poems - Free Audiobook

Selection of Divine Poems - Free Audiobook

Author(s): John Donne,

Language: English

1 / 5Corona, La (The Cycle of 'The Crown')

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5 Chapter(s)
  • 1. Corona, La (The Cycle of 'The Crown')
  • 2. Holy Sonnets I to XIX (aka 'The Divine Meditations')
  • 3. Cross, The
  • 4. 4 - Resurrection, Imperfect (or incomplete)
  • 5. Litany, The

About

John Donne was an English Jacobean preacher, sometime lawyer, later in life a Member of Parliament and Royal Chaplain. Marrying for love against the wishes of his influential father-in-law; Donne's career was cast into shadow: forcing him to support his wife, Anne, as best he might under a specter of unforgiving penury.

Despite such hardships - perhaps because of them - Donne's writings demonstrate a mastery of poetry layered with metaphysical meaning and mystery: which continues to delight and challenge modern-day readers. Donne's "divine poems" - the focus of this collection - present profound theological insights using absorbing allegories and beautiful imagery.

At the end of Donne's life - as his health deteriorated under illnesses of increasing severity - his poetry served him as: distraction, consolation, and even "public confession". With them, Donne cheerfully but soberly faces the limits of his own mortality: and contemplates the mysteries that lie beyond the grave.
(Introduction by Godsend)

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