Super Infinite The Transformations Of John Donne
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Super-Infinite
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 Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022 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.
A Guide to Super Infinite
Author: William R Twitchell
language: en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date: 2022-09-13
THIS IS NOT A BOOK BY KATHERINE RUNDELL, NOR IS IT AFFILIATED WITH HER. IT IS AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION WRITTEN TO OFFER AN INSIGHT ON THE ORIGINAL BOOK. ABOUT THE ORIGINAL BOOK A contemporary of Shakespeare, John Donne is recognized as one of England's finest Elizabethan poets. Donne may sound like a textbook chapter, but in Katherine Rundell's hands, he comes to life in several dimensions and Technicolor language. Rundell follows the paper trail to plausible conclusions and writes with colorful, unexpected twists of phrase in nearly every paragraph. "His brain was generated with ceaselessness... a writer who had blasted through the old into the new," she says of Donne's intellect. His was a difficult but successful life filled with unexpected twists and turns. Donne's family was persecuted by Elizabeth's Protestant government for being Roman Catholic, and his beloved brother was tortured and murdered. In poems, speeches, and writing, he created amazing ideas, designed not to explain but to convey the chaos he perceived around him, "a universe that was moving, raw, and unhinged."
Super-Infinite
**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller** **Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023** **Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023** **Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize 2023** 'Masterly.' Observer 'Wonderful, joyous.' Maggie O'Farrell 'Frankly brilliant.' Sunday Times 'Unmissable.' Simon Jenkins 'Every page sparkles.' Claire Tomalin 'A triumph.' Matt Haig 'Stylish, scholarly and gripping.' Rose Tremain John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable of being just one thing. 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. In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell shows 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. Katherine Rundell's book Super-Infinite was a Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 16-04-2022