The Sunday Times
August 17, 2008
The issues of death belong to the living although, of course, Donne used the word “issues” quite differently from its contemporary meaning. For the living in our culture – or what was our culture – it is hard to find any better sense of an ending than the comfort of familiar tradition, the incantations of the Anglican rites and the communion not of saints, but of friends.
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Death’s Duel by John Donne [1572 – 1631]
