Rundell’s Donne is not two people but at least a dozen, a veritable panoply: ‘poet, lover, essayist, lawyer, pirate, recusant, preacher, satirist, politician, courtier, chaplain to the king, dean of the finest cathedral in London’.
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‘… at some point in the eight years between Henry’s death in 1593 and his own marriage in 1601, Donne did the thing his youthful portrait suggested he would not: he changed from the Roman Catholic faith he had inherited to the Anglicanism on which his future largely depended.’