Super-infinite

• Verfasst von: Rundell, Katherine [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Super-infinite
• Titelzusatz: the transformations of John Donne
• Verf.angabe: Katherine Rundell
• Verlagsort: London
• Verlag: Faber
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: [2022]
• Umfang: viii, 344 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• ISBN: 978-0-571-34591-5
• Schlagwörter: (p)Donne, John
• Dokumenttyp: Biografie
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe
• RVK-Notation: HI 1915
• K10plus-PPN: 1800082800

Abstract

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.