Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 1-8, 1999

Volume 28, Number 11

Robert Penn Warren Lecture to examine
poet's observations about illness

Yale theologian Peter S. Hawkins will present the annual Robert Penn Warren Lecture, "John Donne: Sickness Onto Death," at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 4, in the Beaumont Room, Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St.

The talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Program for Humanities in Medicine.

Hawkins is a professor at both the Yale Divinity School and the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. He is also professor and chair of the Religion and the Arts Program at the Institute of Sacred Music.

His talk on the renowned 17th-century poet and essayist John Donne will focus on the writer's observations about both the doctor-patient relationship and the experience of illness itself -- ranging from the isolation patients can feel and their awareness of their shared mortality with their fellow human beings.

Hawkins will also elaborate on Donne's meditative work "Devotions upon emergent occasions," which the poet wrote after a brush with death in 1621.

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