![]() ![]() ![]() Elizabeth I was Queen in a country that was facing many momentous events. John Donne was born into a family of Catholics in a time when Catholics were not popular or safe, but whose faith was one they would not renounce, in either 1571 or 1572. All these sides to the man are covered in Super- Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by author and scholar Katherine Rundell, a dazzling book that is scholarly, humorous and revealing about this enthralling man. Donne's writings include satires, poems, sermons, and a work on suicide that he hid for his entire life, worried at the reaction people would have. Donne was much more than a poet or the metaphysical movement, he was a scholar, a loving husband, a father to a large brood, a navy man, and a cleric. ![]() The name John Doone will be familiar to people either from that one class in college, Intro to British Writings, or as fans of poetry, possibly even for his sermons, that so many people used to crowd around to hear that listeners could be injured or killed from being crushed. My thanks to both NetGalley and the publisher Farrar Straus and Giroux for an advanced copy of this biography on a poet who was ahead of his times. ![]()
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