Super-Infinite (Paperback)

Paperback. A sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and now in paperback.** Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022 **** A Sunday Times top ten bestseller **'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 TremainJohn Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social dis-aster, 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. Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.