Eminent Anglicans of English Literature: a Fulcrum series with Cambridge University Press

Eminent Anglicans

of English Literature

A Fulcrum series

in partnership with Cambridge University Press

Over the next four months we shall be republishing, with permission, essays on the religious views of four eminent Anglican writers:

John Donne (1572-1631), poet, preacher and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), poet, lexicographer, critic, and biographer.

S. T. Coleridge(1772-1834), poet, critic, philosopher and theologian.

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), poet, critic, playwright and editor.

Cambridge University Press publishes a series: ‘Cambridge Companions to Literature’ and there are books on each of these four writers.

We shall be republishing on Fulcrum the following essays, with the permission of the authors, editors and publisher:

1. Peter McCullough, ‘Donne as preacher’ in Achsah Guibbory (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to John Donne (Cambridge: CUP, 2006), pp. 167-181.

2. Michael Suarez, S.J., ‘Johnson’s Christian thought’ in Greg Clingham (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson (Cambridge: CUP, 1997), pp. 192-208.

3. Mary Anne Perkins, ‘[S. T. Coleridge:] Religious thinker’ in Lucy Newlyn (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (Cambridge: CUP, 2002), pp. 187-199.

4. Cleo McNelly Kearns, ‘Religion, literature and society in the work of T. S. Eliot’ in A. David Moody (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot (Cambridge: CUP, 2002), pp. 77-93.