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Super-infinite : the transformations of John Donne

Rundell, Katherine2022
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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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Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2022.
Collation:
344 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780571345915 (hbk)9780571345939 (ePub ebook)
Language:
English
BRN:
3060549
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