Donne's Augustine - Ettenhuber, Katrin (Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of English)

A comprehensive re-examination of John Donne, through his response to the most iconic religious figure in Western theology, Saint Augustine of Hippo. This book significantly enriches our understanding of the reading and writing culture of Renaissance England, and of the religious debates and controversies in the decades leading up to the Civil War.