Devotional Thoughts

Through these 23 powerful devotions containing meditative expostulations and prayers Donne leads you through a veritable range of divergent poetic moods. From outright satire to sorrowful elegy, and from sacred devotion to lowly lust, Donne’s intense feelings, complex arguments and intricate weaves of softness and hard intellect are a true synthesis of the spiritual and the sensual! One of the three metaphysical poets of the Renaissance, Donne, is best known for his oft quoted, "No man is an island..." and "For whom the bells toll..." He is willfully contradictory, melding diverse realities into a whole new thinking pattern. Theatrical, humbling, extraordinary and quite simply beautiful!