Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
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166
1624
English
- 00 - Dedication
- 01 - Devotion 1
- 02 - Devotion 2
- 03 - Devotion 3
- 04 - Devotion 4
- 05 - Devotion 5
- 06 - Devotion 6
- 07 - Devotion 7
- 08 - Devotion 8
- 09 - Devotion 9
- 10 - Devotion 10
- 11 - Devotion 11
- 12 - Devotion 12
- 13 - Devotion 13
- 14 - Devotion 14
- 15 - Devotion 15
- 16 - Devotion 16
- 17 - Devotion 17
- 18 - Devotion 18
- 19 - Devotion 19
- 20 - Devotion 20
- 21 - Devotion 21
- 22 - Devotion 22
- 23 - Devotion 23
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.
The seventeenth meditation is perhaps the best-known part of the work. It contains the following passage:
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." (Summary by Wikipedia)
The seventeenth meditation is perhaps the best-known part of the work. It contains the following passage:
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." (Summary by Wikipedia)
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