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Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Winner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize
Shortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch Award

A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Hub

From the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.

Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing.

He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, a member of Parliamentand perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marry

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    A Paperback / softback by Katherine Rundell

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      Publisher Picador/Farrar Straus and Giroux
      Published 5 September 2023
      ISBN-13 9781250872500
      978-1250872500
      ISBN-10 1250872502
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      Autobiography: writers Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Literary studies: poetry and poets

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
      Winner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize
      Shortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch Award

      A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022
      A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
      Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Hub

      From the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.

      Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing.

      He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, a member of Parliamentand perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marry

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