Bob Duffy, Washington Independent Review of Books 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.” Super-Infinite is both humble and flashy.
“Katherine Rundell brings us a fresh take on the poems, prose, and protean identities of a 17th-century master of the English language. Anahid Nersessian, New York Review of Books Rundell is an excellent storyteller, moving ably between anecdote and analysis and never losing track of her purpose, which is to follow Donne from cradle to grave and convince us to come along.” “I had many thoughts while reading Super-Infinite, but the most persistent one was this: there ought to be more books like it. Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, The Christian Century A deeply sensitive and clear-eyed reading of Donne’s work and life.” Oxford fellow Katherine Rundell does all of this with an engaging spirit not often seen in academic books. “Finally a biography of John Donne that captures his eccentricities, his contradictions, his fabulous twists and turns, his trickiness. In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell embarks on a fleet-footed act of evangelism, showing 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 man who suffered from surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love.
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.
He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, a member of Parliament-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. Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Hubįrom the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. Winner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography PrizeĪ Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022Ī New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
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