Download or read book Rethinking the Turn to Religion in Early Modern English Literature written by Gregory Kneidel and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering new readings of major eary modern English poets such as Spenser, Milton and Donne, Kneidel counters the trend among literary critics to associate early modern religion with Pauline inwardness and self-formation by showing how these writers took Saint Paul as a model of rhetorical skill and political acumen.