The Life and Letters of John Donne, Dean of St. Paul´s, Vol. 2 of 2
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Excerpt from The Life and Letters of John Donne, Dean of St. Paul´s, Vol. 2 of 2: Now for the First Time Revised and Collected We have now to traverse a period in the life of Donne which was transitional, and in its nature unsatisfactory. Of these years nothing was known to Walton, and we can understand that Donne would not speak much of them, or even, perhaps, recollect their existence. Yet they were of extreme importance in his career; they formed the bridge between his old life and his new. He seemed in the course of them to be further than ever from taking orders in the Church of England ; from the majority of his writings of this period, whether public or private, the possible divine seems to be rigorously excluded; and yet circumstances were so closing around him as to make his ultimate destination an inevitable one. He was in his fortieth year when he returned from the Low Countries, and although his gifts and charms were acknowledged in a widening circle of friends, there was a curious fatality by which a professional use of them was always frustrated. He was ambitious, he was eager to be independent, he was justly confident in his marvellous powers, and yet at the age of forty, Donne, perhaps the most brilliantly equipped mind in his Majesty´s dominions, was nobody and nothing still. His financial position, however, though precarious, must at this time have been more than easy. He was still, it is to be supposed, being paid that liberal quarterly allowance from Sir George More which Sir Francis Wooley had lived just long enough to secure him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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