Publication Date
1981
Keywords
John Donne, English literature, tolling bells
Abstract
The following paragraph from a funeral sermon written in 1620 by Charles Fitz-Geffrey (1575-1637), an Anglican clergyman, contains imagery so much like John Donne's celebrated figure in Devotion XVII (1624) that it should come to the attention of readers interested in Donne and the literature oof Jacobean England:
Do they who close the eyes and cover the face f the Dead consider that their eyes must be closed, and their faces covered? Or they who shroud the Coarse remember that they themselves shortly must be shrouded? Or they who ring the Knell consider that shortly the Bels must goe the same tune for them?
Recommended Citation
Evans, J. X.
(1981)
"Who Cast Donne's Tolling Bells?,"
Quidditas: Vol. 2, Article 12.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rmmra/vol2/iss1/12
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