In November 1623, John Donne had a near death experience. The poet, priest, partyboy and occasional pauper fell sick with a fever - possibly typhus. Ignoring instructions to rest, as he recovered he wrote what became “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes”.
For Whom The Bell Thiels
For Whom The Bell Thiels
For Whom The Bell Thiels
In November 1623, John Donne had a near death experience. The poet, priest, partyboy and occasional pauper fell sick with a fever - possibly typhus. Ignoring instructions to rest, as he recovered he wrote what became “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes”.