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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
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From 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. 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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"Rundell is a writer who knows the quickest way home ..."
"Like him, Rundell loves the world and everything in it; like him, she notices everything; and like him, her interest is in cohesion and continuity."
"The challenge for any biographer is to delve into the apparent contradictions between the two Donnes ..."
"It is a trap Rundell does not always dodge ..."
"frankly brilliant ..."
"Super-Infinite is an attempt to crack Donne's code ..."
"Written with verve and panache, this sparkling biography is enjoyable from start to finish."
"Rundell is a fabulous storyteller ..."
"But did Donne think of poetry as a form of instruction, a matter of moral imperatives?"
"It's a tempestuous tale ..."
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