" This man's delivery of "Death's Duel" prompted Izaak Walton to observe that he had "preached his own funeral sermon."
This writer concluded, "There we leave you in that blessed dependency, to hang upon him that hangs upon the cross," in a text that elaborates the meanings of the line "And unto God the Lord belong the issues of death." This writer defended propositions "That a Wise Man Is Known By Much Laughing" and "That Nature Is Our Worst Guide" in his early set of Paradoxes and Problems. In a work divided into 23 tripartite sections, each containing an "expostulation" and a "prayer," he wrote that "all mankind is of one Author, and one volume," with each chapter to be "translated into a better language." This man's delivery of "Death's Duel" prompted Izaak Walton to observe that he had "preached his own funeral sermon." He wrote that "every man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind" in a passage asserting "no man is an island." For 10 points, name this Dean of St. Paul's whose Meditation XVII ("seventeen") advises "ask not for whom the bell tolls," and whose poetic works include the Holy Sonnets.
This writer concluded, "There we leave you in that blessed dependency, to hang upon him that hangs upon the cross," in a text that elaborates the meanings of the line "And unto God the Lord belong the issues of death."
John Donne