God, Church, and Self (Volume C)

Erasmus (1498-1543)

Protestant Reformation• Ninety-Five Theses

(1517)• church indulgences,

clerical offices• Plague, Schism• personal devotion

over public ritual• vulgar language over

Latin• marriage for priests

and nuns• Grace and salvation

Protestant Reformation (continued)

• religious upheaval

• skepticism

• mysticism

• personal acts of faith

• conceit, metaphor, turns of phrase

• San Juan de la Cruz

• Teresa of Ávila

• erotic language

Devotional Poetry

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582)

“I didn’t see who inflicted them on me, but, as it seemed to me, I felt myself burning and crumbling; and I repeat the worst was that interior fire and despair” (p. 760).

San Juan de la Cruz (1542–1591)

“I stayed there, self forgotten, leaning over my lover” (Song II: 36–37).

“How peaceful and how loving you waken on my bosom” (Song III: 19–20).

Arcangela Tarabotti (1604–1652)

“The father themselves die of grief in ignominy, only to be shut up forever within a narrow tomb—a fitting punishment for having shut up their own daughters within four walls” (p. 767).

John Donne (1572–1631)• financial hardship• Catholic in Protestant

England• secret marriage to a

House of Lords daughter

• metaphysical conceit“Thou’rt like a pilgrim, which abroad hath done Treason…Or like a thief…” (Sonnet 4)

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