Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell

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Katherine Rundell's brilliant biography of poet, priest, scholar and soldier John Donne.

Today - a relationship that fuelled some of the most desire-filled poetry in English in Katherine Rundell’s lively new biography of John Donne. Read by Blake Ritson.

Katherine Rundell’s biography of the poet and "alchemist" of words John Donne. Today – a runaway wedding and an inauspicious start to a relationship that fuelled some of the most desire-filled poetry in English.

This prize-winning new biography of John Donne reveals him as an “infinity merchant”, a man whose preaching could make his congregation weep, a poet whose “beauty deserved walk-on music”. 

Rundell's engaging, witty and often thrilling book champions an impossible to categorise man: pirate, soldier, scholar, priest, inventor of new words and author of some of  most intensely and intimately passionate poetry in English. Donne was a Catholic who lost - or left - his faith, from a family of martyrs, whose career led him to become Dean of Saint Paul’s Cathedral. 

Read by Blake Ritson
Abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Allegra McIlroy

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