Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell
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John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable of being just one thing.
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.
In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell shows us the many sides of Donne's extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times - unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living.
REVIEWS
"A wonderful, joyous piece of work . . . with fierce, interrogative intelligence. it is fantastic to have this most elusive and mysterious of men brought out into the light, for all to see. I just loved it." - Maggie O'Farrell
"Frankly brilliant . . . On reading this extraordinary biography you are left concluding that [Rundell's] talent, like that of her hero's, must somehow be super-infinite." ― Sunday Times
"Rundell captures John Donne's unique vision in all its power, eloquence and strangeness . . . she is the ideal person to evangelise him for our age." - Lara Feigel ― Guardian
PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 978-0571345922
Pages: 352
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.
In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell shows us the many sides of Donne's extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times - unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living.
REVIEWS
"A wonderful, joyous piece of work . . . with fierce, interrogative intelligence. it is fantastic to have this most elusive and mysterious of men brought out into the light, for all to see. I just loved it." - Maggie O'Farrell
"Frankly brilliant . . . On reading this extraordinary biography you are left concluding that [Rundell's] talent, like that of her hero's, must somehow be super-infinite." ― Sunday Times
"Rundell captures John Donne's unique vision in all its power, eloquence and strangeness . . . she is the ideal person to evangelise him for our age." - Lara Feigel ― Guardian
PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 978-0571345922
Pages: 352