Bibliograph

Super-infinite, the transformations of John Donne, Katherine Rundell

Type

Label

Super-infinite, the transformations of John Donne, Katherine Rundell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-330) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Super-infinite

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1289987523

Responsibility statement

Katherine Rundell

Sub title

the transformations of John Donne

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 publisherSometime 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

Target audience

adult

Classification