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Holy Delight - Typology, Numerology, and Autobiography in Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (Hardcover)
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Holy Delight - Typology, Numerology, and Autobiography in Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Composed on the occasion of the poet's near-fatal bout with typhus
in 1623, the Devotions contains the essential germ of John Donne's
mature thought, embodied in obscurely structured verse/prose
divisions. Because of its seeming digressiveness, critics have
struggled to understand this most significant of Renaissance texts
as a whole. Kate Gartner Frost, however, shows that the Devotions,
which combines odd bits of natural history, personal life-data,
quotations from scripture, and descriptions of unpleasant medical
nostrums with personal religious outpourings, is a unified work
belonging to the tradition of English devotional literature and
spiritual autobiography from Augustine onward. Frost examines how
Donne patterned his work on models and structures that allowed the
blending of chronology, experience, anecdote, and insight into the
fullness of extended metaphor reflecting the human condition.
Donne's use of biblical typology is treated, as well as his
adherence to a poetics rooted in pre-Copernican cosmology, which
relies on underlying spatial structures. Finally, Frost reveals the
actual numerological structures present in the Devotions and
addresses the problem of discursive reading in relation to
spatially organized premodern works. Originally published in 1991.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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