Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022
by Katherine Rundell
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Published 14th April 2022, 352 pages
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** A Sunday Times bestseller **
** A Guardian, Spectator, TLS, New Statesman, Daily Mail, Prospect and Telegraph Book of the Year**
‘Every page sparkles.’ Claire Tomalin
‘Crackling with gusto and sympathetic intelligence’ Andrew Motion
‘A triumph.’ Matt Haig
‘A wonderful, joyous piece of work.’ Maggie O’Farrell
‘Blazingly intelligent and witty’ Telegraph
‘Frankly brilliant’ Sunday Times
From a standout scholar, a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.
John Donne lived myriad lives.
Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John 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. 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 man who suffered from black surges of sadness, yet expressed in his verse electric joy and love.
Details
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022
by Katherine Rundell
ISBN
9780571345915
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Binding
Hardback
Publication date
April 14, 2022
Dimensions
21.6cm x 13.5cm x 2.5cm
Page count
352 pages