Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Name: Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Author: Katherine Rundell
ISBN: 9780571345922

Katherine Rundell

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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Katherine Rundell

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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022. John Donne was a man of contradictions: he was born Catholic in Protestant England; he was a passionate love poet who became an austere clergyman; he was a man who was poor, then rich, then poor again. He was also a man of the most piercing intelligence and originality, a poet of unmatched skill. This is a book about a poet who invented the modern love poem, who gave the English language some of its most beautiful and unforgettable lines. It is about a man who loved with all the force of his being, who struggled with doubt and faith, who looked into the abyss and wrote about it with an unparalleled power and grace. Rundell draws on Donne's letters, his poetry, and historical records to construct a biography that is itself a work of art: a book that moves, surprises, and exhilarates, and which shows us a writer who is gloriously, bewilderingly alive on the page.

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