John Donne’s sermon

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The Virtual Paul’s Cross Project enables us to experience the delivery of John Donne’s sermon for Gunpowder Day, November 5, 1622 as an event that unfolds over time on a particular occasion in Paul’s Churchyard, the specific physical location for which it was composed.

“prophetical history, and . . . a historicall prophecy,” recounting the past and accounting for the future,

a lesson

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