The Life Of John Donne

Author : Katherine Rundell
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374607419
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Super-Infinite written by Katherine Rundell and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch Award A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022 A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Hub From the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. 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. 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 surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. 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.

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789143942
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Donne written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of the English Renaissance. The book not only provides an overview of Donne’s life and work, but connects his writing and thinking to the ideas, institutions, and networks that influenced him. The book shows how Donne’s faith underpinned his career, from aspirational courtier to phenomenally successful clergyman and preacher, when he became dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Donne emerges as a figure obsessed with himself, tormented by the fear that his transgressions may have condemned him to eternal damnation. This fine new account uses Donne’s correspondence, writing, and poetry to give a rounded portrait of a bold, experimental thinker, who was never afraid of taking risks that few others would have countenanced.

Author : Izaak Walton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of John Donne ... written by Izaak Walton and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joshua Eckhardt
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271084464
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion Around John Donne written by Joshua Eckhardt and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Joshua Eckhardt examines the religious texts and books that surrounded the poems, sermons, and inscriptions of the early modern poet and preacher John Donne. Focusing on the material realities legible in manuscripts and Sammelbände, bookshops and private libraries, Eckhardt uncovers the myriad ways in which Donne’s writings were received and presented, first by his contemporaries, and later by subsequent readers of his work. Eckhardt sheds light on the religious writings with which Donne’s work was linked during its circulation, using a bibliographic approach that also informs our understanding of his work’s reception during the early modern period. He analyzes the religious implications of the placement of Donne’s poem “A Litany” in a library full of Roman Catholic and English prayer books, the relationship and physical proximity of Donne’s writings to figures such as Sir Thomas Egerton and Izaak Walton, and the movements in later centuries of Donne’s work from private owners to the major libraries that have made this study possible. Eckhardt’s detailed research reveals how Donne’s writings have circulated throughout history—and how religious readers, communities, and movements affected the distribution and reception of his body of work. Centered on a place in time when distinct methods of reproduction, preservation, and circulation were used to negotiate a complex and sometimes dangerous world of confessional division, Religion Around John Donne makes an original contribution to Donne studies, religious history, book history, and reception studies.

Author : Izaak Walton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson: written by Izaak Walton and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Eliot Norton
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5875637366
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Love Poems of John Donne written by Charles Eliot Norton and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Donne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devotions written by John Donne and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Arshagouni Papazian
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814330128
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Donne and the Protestant Reformation written by Mary Arshagouni Papazian and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early transition from Catholicism to Protestantism was a complicated journey for England, as individuals sorted out their spiritual beliefs, chose their political allegiances, and confronted an array of religious differences that had sprung forth in their society since the reign of Henry VIII. Inner anxieties often translated into outward violence. Amidst this turmoil the poet and Protestant preacher John Donne (1572-1631) emerged as a central figure, one who encouraged peace among Christians. Raised a Catholic but ordained in 1615 as an Anglican clergyman, Donne publicly identified himself with Protestantism, and yet scholars have long questioned his theological orientation. Drawing upon recent scholarship in church history, the authors of this collection reconsider Donne's relationship to Protestantism and clearly demonstrate the political and theological impact of the Reformation on his life and writings. The collection includes thirteen essays that together place Donne broadly in the context of English and European traditions and explore his divine poetry, his prose work, the Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and his sermons. It becomes clear that in adopting the values of the Reformation, Donne does not completely reject everything from his Catholic background. Rather, the clash of religion erupts in his work in both moving and disconcerting ways. This collection offers a fresh understanding of Donne's hard-won irenicism, which he achieved at great personal and professional risk.

Author : Jeanne Shami
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199218609
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of John Donne written by Jeanne Shami and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over fifty newly commissioned essays from leading international scholars, The Oxford Handbook of John Donne links past scholarship with current and future re-definitions to provide a distinctive response to Donne and the significance of his work, and forms an essential contribution to early modern studies.

Author : John Carey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571143375
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Donne written by John Carey and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of the seventeenth-century British poet highlights his religious beliefs, writings, and major philosophical concerns