SUPERINFINITE

John Donne led myriad lives. He was a lawyer, a sea adventurer ,apreacher, an MP, and a poet. Along the way he converted from Catholicismto Protestantism. He was also imprisoned for marrying a16-year old girlwithout her father's consent/ struggled to feed afamilyof twelvechildren/ and was often ill and in pain. He was a manwhosuffered fromblack surges of misery yet expressed in his verse manybreathtakingimpressions of electric joy and love.In a biography thatmarks thearrival of a huge non-fiction talent, KatherineRundell uses awitty a...[Leer más]