For further exploration about Donne, Meditation XVII, and other topics considered on these web pages, try these links:

• Donne at the Luminarium
• John Donne Online
• John Donne & his followers
• The San Antonio College John Donne Page
• Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
• John Donne
• John Donne Journal
• John Donne
• John Donne Society
• John Donne entry from the Cambridge History of English
• John Donne Discussion Deck

• Black Death and Plague of London
• Great Plague of London
• The Black Death
• Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
• Plague in England, 1539-1640
• The Black Death: Harbinger of the Renaissance
• Pictures from the plague
• Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Donne as a Poet of Death
• What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day at Oprah's Book Club
• What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day at Epinions
• Pearl Cleage
• AIDS Information on the Internet

• Encarta Encyclopedia - Isolationism
• Utopos Discovered, a newsletter for Utopian Studies
• Oceania - A utopian project to establish a new country on a manmade island
• International Community
• Islandia - a utopian novel
• Historic New Harmony, Indiana - a utopian community
• Brook Farm - a Transcendentalist utopian community in America c. 1841
• Jay's Communities and community-building links