![]() ![]() In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell embarks on a fleet-footed 'act of evangelism', showing us the many sides of Donne's extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabeth times - unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living. ![]() He was a man who suffered from black surges of sadness, yet expressed in his verse electric joy and love.įrom a standout scholar, a biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a high-born girl without her father's consent, struggled to feed a family of ten children and was often ill and in pain. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. From a standout scholar, a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. ![]() 'Stylish, scholarly and gripping' Rose Tremain ![]() 'Crackling with gusto and sympathetic intelligence' Andrew Motion Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell review a deft portrait of John Donne Rundell captures John Donne’s unique vision in all its power, eloquence and strangeness n 1611, John. ![]()
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