DONNE, John.

by John Donne

£3,750 · Offered by Sokol Books

First edition of this important collection of Donne s sermons edited and issued by his son and literary executor, John Donne the younger (1604 1662/3). .LXXX. .Sermons. hugely expanded the number of Donne s sermons available to contemporary readers from the thirteen that had been published either during his life or just after his death to the eighty contained in this imposing folio volume. . .John Donne (1572 1631) was ordained deacon and priest on 23 January 1615 at the instigation of King James. Soon after his ordination he was appointed to a royal chaplaincy and in November 1621 he was elected and installed as Dean of St Paul s. Donne left his sermons to Henry King, and they later, by a rather murky process, went via Walton to John Donne the younger, who published those in his possession in three folio volumes of which .LXXX Sermons. (1640) is the first (.ODNB.). . .Donne s ecclesiastical career occurred during what has been called the heyday of preaching in England (McCullough, chapter 3). A keen sermon enthusiast, James I expanded the number of sermons held at court to twice weekly (in addition to Sundays, a weekly Tuesday sermon was established to commemorate James s escape from the Gowry conspiracy) and patronised preachers, including Donne, extensively. Many of the sermons contained in this collection were indeed read in front of James I at one of his royal residences; many others, however, were preached by Donne at a different pulpit, such as that of St. Paul s Cross

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