This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1957.

This work offers an introduction to the entire canon of John Donne's religious writing, seeking to make its political and theological context fully accessible. The text focuses on the precise historical and political circumstances of Donne's life, and examines his prose works. The works examined include the controversial treatises Bianthanatos and Pseudomartyr, the satirical Ignatius his Conclave, the much-quoted essays and devotions, and his sermons.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.