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Mar 31: Walton's LIFE OF DR. DONNE

The Ghastly Whim of John Donne

Monuments are usually made from death masks, but John Donne
took pleasure in posing for his, wrapped from head to foot in a
shroud. Isaak Walton tells of this in his fascinating biography
of the eccentric poet.

Read from Walton's LIFE OF DR. DONNE .......  Vol. 15, pp. 364-369