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.
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