
Super-Infinite
The Transformations of John Donne
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Simon Vance
From 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.
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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Wow, gosh, phew!
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Loved. This. Book.
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Still, I was not prepared for the wit, intelligence and wonderful style of the author’s writing. I admit I somewhat dreaded getting an approach to Donne’s life that was stodgy or academic, and thus completely at odds with how his work itself is. Her writing is sharp, incisive and sometimes irreverent, as befits her subject. Thank you!
Rundell’s writing is terrific
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Short & beautifully written
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Rundell examines Donne through the lenses of the various facets of his life and personality, bringing him vividly to life. Her prose is wonderful, and the book is engaging and engrossing. She is an unabashed lover of Donne, admitting that this is as much an "act of evangelism" as a biography, and her enthusiasm is contagious. Given my history, I was bound to love this book on an emotional level, but I feel that it is worthy of praise on the intellectual level as well.
Simon Vance was perfect, as usual.
Fantastic
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a really tender character study .
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