Author(s): Rundell, Katherine,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 16/03/2023,
Pagination: 352 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Faber & Faber,
Published By: Faber & Faber,
Book Classification: Biography: general, Biography: literary, Literary studies: poetry & poets
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780571345922

Description:
**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller**

**Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023**

**Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023**

**Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize 2023**

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

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.