![]() He was a man who suffered from black surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. 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. ![]() ![]() New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. Full Bibliographic Record Publication information: ![]()
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