Description: Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography PrizeShortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch Award A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022 A New York Times Notable Book of the YearNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Hub From the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. 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, a priest, a member of Parliament--and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. 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 surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. 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 Elizabethan times--unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living.
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EAN: 9781250872500
UPC: 9781250872500
ISBN: 9781250872500
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Book Title: Super-Infinite : the Transformations of John Donne
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Picador
Topic: Renaissance, Literary, Poetry
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.9 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 10.2 Oz
Author: Katherine Rundell
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
