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John Donne and the Art of Adaptation

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From: Anglican Theological Review
Date: 20050101
Author:Cothran, Anne Faulkner

John Donne is often depicted as one who abandoned the Roman Catholicism of his youth to conform his faith and practice to emergent Anglicanism. However, recent revisionist scholarship demonstrates that the majority of the English populace did not conform or convert to the reformed Church of England. Rather, they gradually adapted to the evolving religious environment in which they found themselves. John Donne was one of those who adapted. He was not a reformer and he did not strictly conform, but he did adapt. This essay explores Donne's adaptation by concentrating on his poetry, in ...

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