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Daniel Starza Smith

is British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, and Oakeshott Junior Research Fellow at Lincoln College. Daniel was awarded a one-month residential fellowship at the Folger in 2013. His research focuses on John Donne's friends, patrons, and early scribes, and his first monograph, John Donne and the Conway Papers, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2014.
Attempting to censor John Donne
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Attempting to censor John Donne

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Daniel Starza Smith

Does a manuscript fragment in our collection provide “exceptionally interesting implications about their original conditions of publication” for John Donne’s sermons? Foremost is the claim that the chaplains of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, demanded major excisions and revisions to the sermons, which Donne the younger refused to make.