Super-Infinite

<b>** A<i> Sunday Times </i>bestseller **</b><br><b>** A <i>Guardian, Spectator, TLS, New Statesman, Daily Mail, Prospect </i>and <i>Telegraph</i> Book of the Year**</b><br><b></b><br>'Every page sparkles.' <b>Claire Tomalin</b><br>'Crackling with gusto and sympathetic intelligence' <b>Andrew Motion</b><br>'A triumph.' <b>Matt Haig</b><br>'A wonderful, joyous piece of work.' <b>Maggie O'Farrell</b><br>'Blazingly intelligent and witty' <b>Telegraph</b><br>'Frankly brilliant' <b>Sunday Times</b><br><br><b>From a standout scholar, a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.</b><br><br>John Donne lived myriad lives.<br><br>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, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a high-born 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 sadness, yet expressed in his verse electric joy and love.