**A Sunday Times<\/i> top ten bestseller**<\/b>
** Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize ** <\/b>
**Shortlisted for the Sunday Times<\/i> Young Writer of the Year Award and the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction **<\/b>
‘Masterly.’ Observer<\/i><\/b>
‘Wonderful, joyous.’ Maggie O’Farrell<\/b>
‘Frankly brilliant.’ Sunday Times<\/i><\/b>
‘Unmissable.’ Simon Jenkins<\/b>
‘Every page sparkles.’ Claire Tomalin<\/b>
‘A triumph.’ Matt Haig<\/b>
‘Stylish, scholarly and gripping.’ Rose Tremain<\/b><\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
In Super-Infinite<\/i>, 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.<\/p>\n
Katherine Rundell’s book Super-Infinite <\/i>was a Sunday Times Bestseller w\/c 16-04-2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. 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. 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. He was a man who suffered from black surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[641],"product_tag":[28381,491,852],"class_list":["post-98823","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-biography","product_tag-biography-literature-literary-studies","product_tag-biography-general","product_tag-biography-literary","pa_book_author-rundell-katherine","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-821-3-edition23","pa_imprint-faber-faber","pa_language-english","pa_pages-8497","pa_publisher-faber-faber","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n