Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

From 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, …

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