Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne Audiobook

Quotes

• “This superb book rises to the challenge of introducing Donne and his world to a new generation.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “[A] dizzyingly fun biography of a poet who lived headlong…[and] a rollicking snapshot of Elizabethan England.”

  — Chicago Tribune

• “[Rundell] ransacks his poetry and prose for insight into the man himself…As a guide to how John Donne’s mind worked, Super-Infinite is a wonder.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “It’s the best book on Donne in years.”

  — Washington Examiner

• “Rundell is a playful, incandescent stylist who brings scintillating insight to her subject.”

  — Washington Independent Review of Books

• “[Rundell] writes with both the knowledge of an expert and the friendly passion of a proselytizer.”

  — New Yorker

• “Captures Donne in all his guises as well as the historical period in which he lived…Written with verve and panache.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “Brings the poet, his poetry, his many lives, and his turbulent Elizabethan and Stuarts times vividly to life.”

  — Simon Sebag Montefiore, New York Times bestselling author

• “A wonderful, joyous piece of work…It is fantastic to have this most elusive and mysterious of men brought out into the light, for all to see.”

  — Maggie O’Farrell, New York Times bestselling author

• “The result is worthy of its subject—every page sparkles.”

  — Claire Tomalin, author of The Young H. G. Wells

• “Rundell makes Donne come alive as a remarkable and extraordinary and almost boundless human being.”

  — Matt Haig, New York Times bestselling author

• “Companionable, astute, intimate in tone and clear-eyed in judgment, it brings Donne and his milieu to glorious life.”

  — Nick Laird, author of Feel Free