From a standout scholar, a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet. 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. Katherine Rundell, Super-infinite: The Transformations of John Donne. 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. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable of being just one thing. ‘Stylish, scholarly and gripping.’ Rose Tremain **Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize 2023** **Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023** Join Katherine Rundell, bestselling author and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, for a look into Donnes myriad lives as a scholar of law, a sea adventurer. **Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023**
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