![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “On reading this extraordinary biography you are left concluding that her talent, like that of her hero, must somehow be super-infinite.”īorn in 1572, Donne was brought up a Catholic in an era when it meant living “in constant terror of violent death”, said James Marriott in The Times. Rundell is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and also a prize-winning children’s writer. Donne’s poetry often involved the “yoking together of two apparently contradictory positions”, and Rundell suggests that his “love of paradox” likewise lay behind his decision to enter the clergy. In her “thrilling reassessment of Donne’s oddly hinged career”, Katherine Rundell argues that the transformation was less unlikely than it seems. Book of the week: The Sinner and the Saint by Kevin Birmingham.Book of the week: The Last Emperor of Mexico by Edward Shawcross.Book of the week: An Accidental Icon by Norman Scott. ![]()
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