Vehement Poetry: The Literary Sources of John Donne’s Ecclesiastical Via Media

This paper proposes to look at the unexpected forms of continuity between John Donne’s formal satires and elegies, written in his early years as a coterie poet, and his later definition of the Via Media of the Church of England. The young, provocative Donne was attracted to Roman poetry because of i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 2014-12-01
Series:XVII-XVIII
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/1718/405