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Mining for Augustinian gold in John Donne's Meditation 17.(Essays)(Critical essay)

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From: ANQ
Date: 20070322
Author:Jungman, Robert

In his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, John Donne provides a powerful psychological analysis of the nearly fatal illness he suffered from late November to early December 1623 (Raspa xiii-xiv, xl-lvi). Published almost immediately afterward in January 1624, this collection of twenty-three three-part "meditations" presents Donne himself as both an object of his own study and as an example to others of the precariousness of human existence. Reading himself as a "text" to understand his disease both literally and figuratively, Donne means for his reader to read his account of his ...

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