![]() ![]() A “lifelong strainer after words and ideas,” a youthful Donne kept a commonplace book at Oxford-now lost Rundell suggests its technique of literary alchemy influenced his method of writing. ![]() “He reimagined and reinvented himself, over and over.” She nimbly captures Donne in all his guises as well as the historical period in which he lived. A staunch admirer-she places the “finest love poet in the English language” alongside Shakespeare-her book is an “act of evangelism.” Donne “was incapable of being just one thing,” writes the author. Prizewinning children’s-book author Rundell, a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, delivers a fresh, delightful biography of John Donne (1572-1631). An enthusiastic biography of the metaphysical poet, scholar, and cleric. ![]()
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