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Super-infinite : the transformations of John Donne / Katherine Rundell.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780374607401
ISBN: 0374607400
Physical Description: viii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The Prodigious Child -- The Hungry Scholar -- The Exquisitely Clothed Theoriser on Fashion -- Brother to a Dead Man -- The Convert (Perhaps) -- The (Unsuccessful) Adventurer -- The Inexperienced Expert of Love -- The Erratic Collector of His Own Talent -- The Witness of Disastrous Intrigue -- The Paradoxical Quibbler, Taking Aim at Women -- Anne -- The Daring of the Lover, and the Imprisoned Groom -- The Anticlimactically Married Man -- The Ambivalent Father -- How to Pretend to Have Read More Than You Have -- The Suicidal Man -- The Flatterer -- The Clergyman -- The Widower -- The (Unsuccessful) Diplomat -- The Dean -- The Monied -- Donne and Death -- Super-Infinite.