Love's Pilgrimage: The Holy Journey in English Renaissance Literature

by Grace Tiffany

What happened to the English pilgrimage tradition after the Protestant Reformation dispensed with saints' shrines? In Love's Pilgrimage , Grace Tiffany explores literary adaptations of the Catholic pilgrimage in the Protestant poetry and prose of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, and John Bunyan. Her discussion of these authors' works iluminates her larger claim that while in the sixteenth century convfentional pilgrimages disappeared from English life, the imaginative importance of the pilgrimage persisted.

217 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2006

About the author

Grace Tiffany is an American writer who lives and teaches in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her novels include MY FATHER HAD A DAUGHTER (2003), WILL (2004), THE TURQUOISE RING (2005), ARIEL (2006), PAINT (2013), GUNPOWDER PERCY (2016), and her latest, THE OWL WAS A BAKER'S DAUGHTER (2025). She has also translated writings by the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges and the Mexican author Maria Luisa Puga.