Robert V. Young in his article “Donne and Bellarmine” (2000: 223–34) argues that whilst Donne occasionally polemicized with the Italian Jesuit, Robert Bellarmine throughout his clerical career, one thing is certain, that Donne had studied Bellarmine's works thoroughly. And perhaps, as Young reminds us, the best proof we have today of this, is not only the occasional references to Bellarmine in his religious prose, but likewise in the heavily annotated copies of Bellarmine's works that belonged to the Father of Metaphysical Poetry (Bald 1970: 78). It is indeed significant that Donne himself, though throwing invectives at the Italian Cardinal in his fifth prebend Sermon on Psalms 66.3, follows Bellarmine's explanatory style very closely in this sermon (Young 2000: 224). That the resurrection was a recurrent theme in Donne's religious poetry and later religious prose is further justified when one considers the imminent experience and consciousness of death in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Swiss and Kent, 2000: 12–5). Conquering death hence not only concerned the troubled and searching mind of the young metaphysical wit, but more importantly was a significant theme that the Anglican priest had to address both in his theological and, more importantly, pastoral work (cf. Stanwood, 2002: 202–6). Resurrection, as this article hopes to prove, was a theme which Donne dealt with extensively, not only in his religious poetry but also in his prose.