Title:
Super-infinite : the transformations of John Donne / Katherine Rundell.
ISBN:
9780374607401
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Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
©2022
Physical Description:
viii, 343 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents:
Prodigious Child -- Hungry Scholar -- Exquisitely Clothed Theoriser on Fashion -- Brother to a Dead Man -- Convert (Perhaps) -- The (Unsuccessful) Adventurer -- Inexperienced Expert of Love -- Erratic Collector of His Own Talent -- Witness of Disastrous Intrigue -- Paradoxical Quibbler, Taking Aim at Women -- Anne -- Daring of the Lover, and the Imprisoned Groom -- Anticlimactically Married Man -- Ambivalent Father -- How to Pretend to Have Read More Than You Have -- Suicidal Man -- Flatterer -- Clergyman -- Widower -- The (Unsuccessful) Diplomat -- Dean -- Monied -- Donne and Death -- Super-Infinite.
Summary:
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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OCLC Number:
on1289987523
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