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Article: Literature & Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John Donne.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2001
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Literature & Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John Donne. By THERESA DIPASQUALE. (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies) Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press. 1999. xviii + 338 pp. $58.
The central question for any writer on Donne is the relationship between his religion and his secular poetry. Traditionally presented as a divided life, Donne's career was redescribed by John Carey, twenty years ago, in the critical biography that placed his early apostasy at the heart of everything else that followed. Donne was already occupied with the minute speculations and turgid polemics of theological debate when he wrote Satire III, and his personal library ...