John Donne's Colonial Innocence.
From his verse epistles and libertine poems to his religious polemic and sermons, John Donne routinely invokes the Native peoples of the Americas as exemplars of innocence. Donne's understanding of Native peoples' innocence was influenced by the Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas's treatise Brev...
| Published in: | Studies in Philology Vol. 119; no. 3; pp. 1 - 37 |
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University of North Carolina Press
Summer2022
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