Katherine Rundell is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where she works on Renaissance literature. Standout scholar Katherine Rundell shows readers the many sides of his 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 maritime 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. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne gives readers a window into the little-known myriad lives the poet John Donne lived. The announcement was streamed to readers around the world via the Baillie Gifford Prize social media channels. The winner was announced by Chair of Judges Caroline Sanderson at a ceremony hosted at the Science Museum and generously supported by The Blavatnik Family Foundation.
17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell has been named winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022. He was a man who suffered from black surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love.LONDON, Nov. 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.
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. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing.
Title: Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donneįrom standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.
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