ABSTRACT
The seventeenth century saw unprecedented developments in knowledge of science and the workings of the world. At the turn of the century, however, anxieties persist over the legitimacy of knowledge gained and the methods used to find it. The poet and courtier Fulke Greville explores this concern in his verse treatises A Treatie of Humane Learning (pub. 1633) and A Treatise of Religion (pub. 1670). With the precedent of Eden and the Fall ever present in his thinking, Greville questions the position of humankind within the potential infinitude of knowledge and the boundaries between lawful and unlawful knowledge.
