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    A Selection of Divine Poems
    A Selection of Divine Poems
    A Selection of Divine Poems
    Audiobook49 minutes

    A Selection of Divine Poems

    Written by John Donne

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    John Donne was an English Jacobean preacher, sometime lawyer, later in life a Member of Parliament and Royal Chaplain. Marrying for love against the wishes of his influential father-in-law; Donne's career was cast into shadow: forcing him to support his wife, Anne, as best he might under a specter of unforgiving penury.

    Despite such hardships - perhaps because of them - Donne's writings demonstrate a mastery of poetry layered with metaphysical meaning and mystery: which continues to delight and challenge modern-day readers. Donne's "divine poems" - the focus of this collection - present profound theological insights using absorbing allegories and beautiful imagery.

    At the end of Donne's life - as his health deteriorated under illnesses of increasing severity - his poetry served him as: distraction, consolation, and even "public confession". With them, Donne cheerfully but soberly faces the limits of his own mortality: and contemplates the mysteries that lie beyond the grave.

    (Introduction by Godsend)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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