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Our politicians preach a new petty Calvinism
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OUR MSPs no longer stroll to their labours in the shadow of John
Knox standing forbiddingly in the courtyard of the Kirk's Assembly
Hall. They have removed to the gentler air of Holyrood. Will this
encourage them to practise tolerance? One would like to think so. One
fears otherwise. If I had been consulted - which, of course, I wasn't
- I would have had one text inscribed on the walls of the chamber and
every committee room in the building. It is this:
O ye wha are sae guid yoursel, Sae pouis and sae holy, Ye've
nought to do but mark and tell Your neibours' fauts and folly!
That would ...
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Donne: The Reformed Soul.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies
; ...biography is further marked by its debts to two modern biographical studies, R. C. Bald's John Donne: A Life (1970) and John Carey's John Donne: Life, Mind and Art (1981). Stubbs relies heavily on Bald's primary research and documentation...
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Donne and the Resources of Kind
Magazine article from: AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association
; ...Recent Genre Criticism of the Works of John Donne: 'genre is not a cipher with which...perspectives, Heather Dubrow's, 'Donne's Elegies and the Ugly Beauty Tradition...Gender, Genre, and the Idea of John Donne in the Anniversaries'. Dubrow...
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John Donne and the Art of Adaptation
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review
; John Donne is often depicted as one who abandoned...environment in which they found themselves. John Donne was one of those who adapted. He was not...Christian. Two strikingly different images of John Donne emerge from his early life and his later...
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Donne's Satyre III.(poet John Donne)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator
; ...focuses on Satyre III as a reflection of Donne's religious beliefs, especially with regard to his conversion. (1) Although Donne satirizes various aspects of organized...political and commercial power as well. Donne concludes his satire with the following...
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John Donne's Poetry and Early Modern Visual Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; Ann Hollinshed Hurley. John Donne's Poetry and Early Modern Visual Culture...scholars have yet to fully appreciate Donne's participation in and influence on...connections between an early portrait and Donne's poetry of the 1590s to some of Donne...
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John Donne and the Protestant Reformation: New Perspectives.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature
; John Donne and the Protestant Reformation...thirteen ways of visiting John Donne (1572-1631), his religious...Dort saying "goodnight to John Calvin"?). Furthermore, we are told that one of Donne's respondents at the 1626...
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John Donne's Religious Imagination: Essays in Honor of John T. Shawcross. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: ANQ
; ...sermons, and tells us that Donne celebrates "the general...Klawitter's tide, " John Donne's Attitude toward the...public," as, say, John Milton does in The Christian...Lost. Two articles on Donne's "public voice" we...
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Donne's Hawkings.(John Donne)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; ...decade of the seventeenth century, John Donne used letters and journeys to stitch...frustration of his hopes for preferment. Donne and his wife were reduced to dependence...In these difficult circumstances, Donne's correspondence took on a central...
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John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...introductory and concluding chapters. Flynn takes Donne's 1591 portrait as his starting point...emphasizing instead its "purposeful reference to Donne's Catholic and Welsh ancestry" through...concludes with a new reading of two of Donne's letters from 1602, again revealing...
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John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: ANQ
; ...Rastell. Chapter 2 introduces Donne's grandfather, John Heywood, and his sons, Ellis...Catholics in England. The teenaged John Donne may well have spent some time...less certain. Flynn identifies John Donne with a "Mr John Donnes," named...
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