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Zusatztext [An] intensively researched volume Informationen zum Autor David Colclough is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography life of John Donne, and the editor of John Donne's Professional Lives (D.S. Brewer, 2003). His monograph Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. Klappentext The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, this volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I between the king's accession in 1625 and Donne's death in 1631 Zusammenfassung The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, this volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I between the king's accession in 1625 and Donne's death in 1631 INTRODUCTION ; I. DONNE AS COURT CHAPLAIN ; II. THE SETTING ; i. Whitehall and the Chapel Royal ; ii. St James' ; iii. The Court ; III. THE SERMONS ; i. Form and Style ; ii. Context and Doctrine ; IV. COMMENTARY ; i. Bibles ; ii. Church Fathers ; iii. Contemporary commentaries and controversial works ; iv. Secular learning ; V. THE TEXTS ; CALENDAR OF SERMONS, 1625-31 ; THE TEXTS ; 1. The First Sermon Preached to King Charles, At Saint Iames: 3?. April. 1625. [Ps. 11: 3] ; 2. A Sermon, Preached to the Kings Mtie. at Whitehall, 24. Febr. 1625. [Isa. 50: 1] ; 3. Preached to the King in my Ordinary wayting at White-hall, 18. Aprill 1626. [John 14: 2] ; 4. A Sermon Preached to the Houshold at White-hall, April 30. 1626. [Matt. 9: 13] ; 5. Preached to the King, at White-Hall, the first of April, 1627. [Mark 4: 24] ; 6. A Sermon Preached at White-hall February 29. 1627. [Acts 7: 60] ; 7. Preached to the King at White-hall, upon the occasion of the Fast, April 5. 1628 [Ps. 6: 6, 7] ; 8. Preached to the King at White-hall, April 15. 1628 [Isa. 32: 8] ; 9. A Lent-SERMON Preached at WHITE-HALL, February 20. 1628. [James 2: 12] ; 10. Two Sermons Preached before King Charles, Upon the xxvi verse of the first Chapter of genesis. [Gen. 1: 26] ; 11. The Second Sermon Preached before King Charles, Upon the xxvi verse of the first Chapter of genesis. [Gen. 1: 26] ; 12. A Lent-SERMON Preached to the KING, At WHITE-HALL, February 12. 1629. [Matt. 6: 21] ; 13. Preached to the King. April 20. 1630. [Job 16: 17, 18, 19] ; 14. DEATHS DVELL, OR, A Consolation to the Soule, against the dying Life, and liuing Death of the Body. [Ps. 68: 20] ; Elegies printed with Sermon 14 ; A Note on Donne's portrait in Q1632 ; ABBREVIATIONS ; COMMENTARIES ; INDEX OF BIBLICAL TEXTS ; BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX ; GENERAL INDEX ...
