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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.