Paul R Sellin

Paul R. Sellin is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles, and oud-hoogleraar, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has published extensively on northern European Neo-Latin poetic theory; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Anglo-Dutch Relations; English literature from the age of Shakespeare through Milton, especially John Donne; Dutch literature in the Golden Age; Anglican and Reformed theology; and continental artists, spies, and diplomats...See more

Paul R. Sellin is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles, and oud-hoogleraar, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has published extensively on northern European Neo-Latin poetic theory; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Anglo-Dutch Relations; English literature from the age of Shakespeare through Milton, especially John Donne; Dutch literature in the Golden Age; Anglican and Reformed theology; and continental artists, spies, and diplomats from the reign of King James to the Restoration. He has also done translations from Dutch and Latin, the most notable being Daniel Heinsius' De tragoediae constitutione (1643). Current research deals with Lieuwe van Aitzema, Alexandre Morus, and the politics behind the Dutch translation of John Milton's The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. See less