Donald R. Dickson, Ph.D. (1981) in English, University of Illinois, is Professor of English at the Texas A & M University. He has published extensively on seventeenth-century literature, including The Fountain of Living Waters: The Typology of the Waters of Life in Herbert (Vaughan and Traherne, 1987).

"Dickson's book should immediately take its place beside some of the classic by Yates, Walker and Debus as a stellar example of good scholarship devoted to a very difficult subject, that of secret societies, their origins and influences...The last, generous chapter on utopian societies in England presents almost uniquely available information."Pratum Book Company."This is an impressive study of the idea of establishing learned and pious fraternities, academies and colleges as it spread in the seventeenth century from Italy, through Germany to the Baltic and on to England and eventually the New World."J.C. Davis, Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies, 2000.

Donald R. Dickson, Ph.D. (1981) in English, University of Illinois, is Professor of English at the Texas A & M University. He has published extensively on seventeenth-century literature, including The Fountain of Living Waters: The Typology of the Waters of Life in Herbert (Vaughan and Traherne, 1987).

"Dickson's book should immediately take its place beside some of the classic by Yates, Walker and Debus as a stellar example of good scholarship devoted to a very difficult subject, that of secret societies, their origins and influences...The last, generous chapter on utopian societies in England presents almost uniquely available information."Pratum Book Company."This is an impressive study of the idea of establishing learned and pious fraternities, academies and colleges as it spread in the seventeenth century from Italy, through Germany to the Baltic and on to England and eventually the New World."J.C. Davis, Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies, 2000.

Donald R. Dickson, Ph.D. (1981) in English, University of Illinois, is Professor of English at the Texas A & M University. He has published extensively on seventeenth-century literature, including The Fountain of Living Waters: The Typology of the Waters of Life in Herbert (Vaughan and Traherne, 1987).

"Dickson's book should immediately take its place beside some of the classic by Yates, Walker and Debus as a stellar example of good scholarship devoted to a very difficult subject, that of secret societies, their origins and influences...The last, generous chapter on utopian societies in England presents almost uniquely available information."Pratum Book Company."This is an impressive study of the idea of establishing learned and pious fraternities, academies and colleges as it spread in the seventeenth century from Italy, through Germany to the Baltic and on to England and eventually the New World."J.C. Davis, Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies, 2000.