Donne, John

So doth, so is religion: John Donne and diplomatic contexts in the Reforme…

by Sellin, Paul R.

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Sellin examines the view of the Protestant Reformation as held by John Donne by recounting the poet's actions and words as a diplomat at the Hague, as well as throughout the Netherlands.

In Europe, during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, questions that occupied the minds of the scientists and philosophers in characterizing the universe as a whole were those which related to a concept of infinity in time and space. New theories on gravity, motion, ext…

“Strangely Entangled” explores the fraught relationship of Renaissance English poetry to its classical literary past. As English poetry began to shape itself into a distinctive kind and body of writing, the need for poetic models apart from those of ancient (and now Papist) Rome…

This dissertation argues that the manuscript dissemination of one of the most popular groups of poems in early modern England transformed the genre's politics. The Ovidian, anti-Petrarchan, and otherwise bawdy verse of John Donne, Sir John Davies, Francis Beaumont, and others or…