Where does the title, For Whom the Bell Tolls originate?
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” is a phrase from John Donne’s MEDITATION XVII in his book, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. You can read the text of this meditation online. The section which starts, “No man is an island” and ends “it tolls for thee” is the segment that Hemingway chose as an epigraph to his 1940 novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls.
