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John Donne's Physics

Author : Professor Elizabeth D. Harvey,Professor Timothy M. Harrison

Hardback

Published : Friday 10 May 2024

ISBN : 9780226833507

Price : €93.60

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A reimagining of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as an original treatment of human life shaped by innovations in seventeenth-century science and medicine.   In 1624, poet and preacher John Donne published Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, a book that recorded his near-death experience during a deadly epidemic in London. Four hundred years later, in the aftermath of our own pandemic, Harvey and Harrison show how Devotions crystalizes the power, beauty, and enduring strangeness of Donnes thinking. Arguing that Donne saw human life in light of emergent ideas in the study of nature (physics) and the study of the body (physick), John Donnes Physics reveals Devotions as a culminating achievement, a radically new literary form that uses poetic techniques to depict Donnes encounter with death in a world transformed by new discoveries and knowledge systems.

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