The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne Volume XIII: Sermons Preached at St Paul's Cathedral, 1626–1628

This new volume in the prestigious Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne contains thirteen sermons preached by Donne as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral between November 1626 and November 1628. For each sermon, an authoritative text has been established by freshly collating multiple copies of the seventeenth-century print editions. The introduction describes the institutional and physical context of Donne's cathedral sermons, analyses his style of preaching and doctrinal and political positions, and explores the context of early modern preaching in London. For the first time, the sermons appear with a full critical apparatus: headnotes to each sermon describe its textual state and supply local historical context and suggestions for further reading, while extensive commentaries trace Donne's use of his sources, translate passages in foreign languages, and gloss important and unfamiliar words.

1 - The third of my Prebend Sermons upon my five Psalmes: Preached at S. Pauls, November 5. 1626. In Vesperis. [Ps. 64: 10]
2 - Preached at the funerals of Sir William Cokayne Knight, Alderman of London, December 12. 1626. [John 11: 21]
3 - Preached at S. Pauls upon Christmas day. 1626. [Luke 2: 29, 30]
4 - The fourth of my Prebend Sermons upon my five Psalmes: Preached at S. Pauls, 28. Ianuary, 1626. [Ps. 65: 5]
5 - Preached upon Candlemas day. [Matt. 5: 8.]
6 - Preached at S. Pauls, upon Easter-day. 1627. [Heb. 11. 35]
7 - Preached at S. Pauls, upon Whitsunday. 1627. [John 14. 26.]
8 - The fifth of my Prebend Sermons upon my five Psalmes: Preached at S. Pauls. [Ps. 66: 3]
9 - Preached at Pauls, upon Christmas Day. 1627. [Exod. 4: 13]
10 - Preached at S. Pauls, The Sunday after the Conversion of S. PAUL. 27. Ian. 1627. [Acts 20: 25]
11 - Preached at S. Pauls, for Easter-day. 1628. [1 Cor. 13: 12]
12 - Preached at S. Pauls upon Whitsunday. 1628. [John 14: 26]
13 - A Sermon Preached in Saint Pauls in the Evening, November 23. 1628. [Prov. 14: 31]

Mary Ann Lund is Professor of Renaissance English Literature at the University of Leicester. She is the author of A User's Guide to Melancholy (Cambridge, 2021), Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' (Cambridge, 2010), and essays on Donne's Devotions, Robert Burton, John Bunyan, illness, the history of emotions, and reading in early modern England.