ABSTRACT
Guiney begins by suggesting that ‘some one…should write a…scientific and authentic study of Dr John Donne as a Catholic: preferably should the author of it be of the same faith’. This in small compass she sets out to do, combining both general analysis of the Catholic and Protestant sentiment in Donne’s verse and sermons and describing his family’s connections with Catholicism. She states that every Catholic who is an attentive reader, every psychologist brought in contact with the interesting and peccable characters of that English age, will agree that Donne, wherever his utterance is devotional, shows himself a child (and not a strayed child) of the old Church.
