Rethinking the Turn to Religion in Early Modern English Literature: The Poetics of All Believers (Early Modern Literature in History)

Offering new readings of major eary modern English poets such as Spenser, Milton and Donne, Kneidel counters the trend among literary critics to associate early modern religion with Pauline inwardness and self-formation by showing how these writers took Saint Paul as a model of rhetorical skill and political acumen.