Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell
English | April 14, 2022 | ISBN: 0571345913 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 8.5 MB
English | April 14, 2022 | ISBN: 0571345913 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 8.5 MB
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.