Question about John Milton and John Donne

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The former was the secretary for Oliver Cromwell for some time; I understand that he had more political sympathies with the Puritans than doctrinal affinities (though notable among them was strong anti-Catholic convictions), but he was a professed Christian. He started out training for the ministry and decided to be a poet instead.

Donne was an Anglican clergyman. His love poetry became more sanctified after he entered the ministry...still, he was rather eccentric.
 
There have been debates on the PB previously about whether John Milton was an Arian or not. He started out as a Puritan, but went off the Puritan path on the issue of divorce, and his theology as expressed in Paradise Lost and De doctrina Christiana has been criticized as unorthodox.

John Donne was an Anglican. He is one of my favorite poets. Although some of his poems convey sensuality, I am not aware of a reason to doubt his profession of faith as a Christian.
 
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