![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Super-Infinite, her biography of John Donne, is a fabulous gem, what she calls her ‘act of evangelism,’ crammed with a detailed, wide-ranging and stimulating examination of every transformation of Donne’s life, writings and background. Katherine Rendell is a writer of superb children’s books (check out The Explorer) and also, surprisingly, a Fellow of All Souls. 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 Elizabeth times-unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living. He was a man who suffered from black surges of sadness yet expressed in his verse electric joy and love.įrom a standout scholar, a biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex and death. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a high-born girl without her father's consent, struggled to feed a family of 10 children and was often ill and in pain. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral-and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. ![]() Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. ![]()
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