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

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.