…Confronted with the thought of death, many of us perform the psychological equivalent of hiding in a box with our knees under our chin. But Donne saluted death; he wrote it poetry, he threw it parties. He had a memento mori that he left to a friend in his will, "the picture called The Skeleton which hangs in the hall." For Donne, that we are born astride the grave was a truth to welcome…
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