Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Author: first_name: John
last_name: Donne
Language: English
Year: 1624

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or relapsing fever. (Donne does not clearly identify the disease in his text.) The work consists of twenty-three parts describing each stage of the sickness. Each part is further divided into a Meditation, an Expostulation, and a Prayer.<br><br>The seventeenth meditation is perhaps the best