Super-infinite : the transformations of John Donne /
"A very modern biography of John Donne-the poet of love, sex, and death-by bestselling children's book author and superstar academic Katherine Rundell"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2022.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | "A very modern biography of John Donne-the poet of love, sex, and death-by bestselling children's book author and superstar academic Katherine Rundell"-- Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Along the way he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year old girl without her father’s consent; struggled to feed a family of ten children; and was often ill and in pain. He was a man who suffered from black surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-330) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780374607401 0374607400 |