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Eileen Sperry

is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Skidmore College and a 2022-23 Folger Institute Fellow. Her current project examines death, decay, and lyric form in early modern English poetry. 
The art of dying
Image of title page for Christopher Sutton's Disce mori: learn to die.
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The art of dying

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a guest post by Eileen Sperry For early modern English Christians, dying was an art form. The bestseller list of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, had there been one, would have been topped by some of the period’s many…