[44] C. S. Lewis repeatedly explained that when Protestantism first emerged, it seemed not too grim but too glad to be true. See "Donne and Love Poetry in the Seventeenth Century," in Seventeenth-Century Studies Presented to Sir Herbert Grierson , preface by J. Dover Wilson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938), 75; English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954), 33–35, 187–92. See also Strier, "John Donne Awry and Squint," 361–64.