2023/068: Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne — Katherine Rundell

2023/068: Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne — Katherine Rundell

To write about death in the way he did – to send a suction pump down into the gap between what we know and what we fear – was to risk chaos. Donne knew it and did it anyway. [loc. 2893]

A splendidly effervescent critical biography that emphasises both the transformations of John Donne ('the persecuted, the rake, the lawyer, the bereaved, the lover, the jailbird, the desperate, the striver, the pious, John Donne the almost dead and reporting from the front line of the grave' [loc. 4318]) and the constant thread of invention that ran through his life. ( Read more... )