TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flynn,Dennis
TI  - John Donne and the ancient Catholic nobility 
SN  - 025332906X (alk. paper)
AV  - PR2248 FLY .F56 1995
U1  - PR2248 FLY 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Donne, John,
KW  - Church of England
KW  - England
KW  - Clergy
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Poets, English
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - Christianity and literature
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Christian poetry, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Catholics
KW  - Nobility
KW  - Church history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-240) and index
N2  - Against the background of the earliest, puzzling portrait of John Donne, this book attempts to place Donne's early life in the context of his descent from Sir Thomas More and his family's generations-long association with the ancient Catholic nobility; Beginning with Sir Thomas More, Flynn traces the active involvement of two generations of Donne's forebears in political opposition to Tudor religious reform. Flynn suggests an alliance in opposition to persecution between Donne's family and the houses of Percy and Stanley, especially through the missionary work of Donne's uncle Jasper Heywood and Donne's friendship with Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland; Percy's continental travels in the 1580s may be related to the early travels of Donne and to the plans of Catholic exiles for an invasion of England six years before the defeat of the Armada; Seen within a larger familial, social, and religious context in which exile and persecution for religious belief were the overriding experiences, the distinctive marks of Donne's personality emerge with new clarity. An important contribution to Donne studies, Flynn's book will have an impact on how Donne's poetry is read
ER  -