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John Donne
John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels
With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations
Edited and with an introduction by Evelyn M. Simpson
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$23.95, £13.95 paperback
978-0-520-23928-9
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245 pages, 5-1/2 x 8 inches,
June 2003, Available worldwide
Categories: Religion; Christianity; English Literature

The glory of John Donne's prose at its best is very different from that of his verse, but is equal to it; and there can be no question that his best prose is in his sermons. His sense of form and arrangement, his psychological insight, his differences of mood and emphasis, and his religious fervor will make this selection of ten sermons particularly interesting to the attentive reader familiar with Donne's poetry.
Evelyn M. Simpson was coeditor with the late George R. Potter of the definitive ten-volume edition of the Sermons of John Donne. She was also the author of Study of the Prose Works of John Donne, and editor of Donne's Essays in Divinity.