ABSTRACT
M.P.Ramsay, a patriotic Scot who wrote on Calvin and art, spent five years carrying out research in Paris, where she completed a doctorate for the University of Paris. She followed the interests of her mentors Grierson and Picavet in Donne’s debt to the mediaeval metaphysicians. Her published dissertation argues that, for all Donne’s originality as a poet, his conception of the universe and manner of formulating it are ‘essentially mediaeval’ (Les Doctrines médiévales chez Donne, le poète métaphysicien de l’Angleterre (1917), 1924).
