Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250872500ISBN-10:1250872502UPC:9781250872500Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Poetry, RenaissanceSize:8.26 x 5.46 x 0.95 inchesWeight:0.67Product ID:SCP3KF4V31
Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Winner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize
Shortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch Award
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Hub From the 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. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, a member of Parliament--and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. 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 surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell embarks on a fleet-footed act of evangelism, showing us the many sides of Donne's extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times--unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250872500ISBN-10:1250872502UPC:9781250872500Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Poetry, RenaissanceSize:8.26 x 5.46 x 0.95 inchesWeight:0.67Product ID:SCP3KF4V31
Katherine Rundell is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where she works on Renaissance literature. Her bestselling books for children have been translated into more than thirty languages and have won multiple awards. Rundell is also the author of a book for adults, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise. She has written for, among others, the London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times, largely about books, though sometimes about animals, night climbing, and tightrope walking.
Publisher: Picador USA
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