Typology and Iconography in Donne, Herbert, and Milton: Fashioning the Self after Jeremiah

During the Renaissance, the prophet Jeremiah appeared often in secular and religious popular culture as well as mainstream culture. This book analyzes the iconographic traditions of Jeremiah and melancholy to show how Donne, Herbert, and Milton each fashioned himself after the icons presented in Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Sluter's sculpture of Jeremiah in the Well of Moses, and Michelangelo's fresco of Jeremiah in the Sistine Chapel.