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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. 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. 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. But Rundell does something brand-new, matching Donne’s. John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. Some fine biographies of Donne exist, one of whichJohn Carey’s John Donne: Life, Mind and Artawakened Rundell as a teen to the possibilities that literary criticism could be electric. 'Stylish, scholarly and gripping.' Rose Tremain Super-infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (Hardback). 'Wonderful, joyous.' Maggie O'Farrell 'Frankly brilliant.' Sunday Times **Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize 2023** **Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023**

Hardcover (September 6th, 2022): $30.**Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023**.

He was a man who suffered from black surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. The author sets out to overturn the narrow angle on Donne that many of us have picked up like a subtle classroom. Humble because John Donne’s life and work lie on a path well-trodden by scholars flashy because Rundell is a playful, incandescent stylist who brings scintillating insight to her subject.

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. Super-Infinite is both humble and flashy.

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. In a similar vein of British metaphysical poetry: Ive heard great things about Kunins Love Three1 as an analysis of the eponymous George Herbert poem2. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.