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Notes
1
Michael Schoenfeldt references Louis Martz, Anthony Raspa, and A. D. Cousins as the
main critics reading Donne in light of Catholicism; P. M. Oliver adds Helen Gardner
to this list (Schoenfeldt 582, Oliver 110). Oliver also credits Barbara K. Lewalski
and John Stachniewski as key scholars in placing Donne’s poetry in the Protestant,
specifically Calvinist sphere (121, 137).
2
Anne-Marie Miller Blaise cites major critics under the banner of “Anglo-Catholic”
influence as Louis Martz, Heather Asals, and Amy M. Charles, and those who think
Herbert “Calvinist” as Joseph H. Summers, Barbara K. Lewalski, and Richard Strier
(Blaise 18).
3
It is interesting that in Herbert’s lifetime the word “icon” could mean a metaphor,
specifically “a simile” (OED). Much like a simile, when Herbert’s poetry acts as an
icon it motions to the reader to compare two things, often the literal and the spiritual.
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