![]() ![]() He was a man who suffered from black surges of sadness yet expressed in his verse electric joy and love.įrom a standout scholar, a biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex and death. ![]() 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 10 children and was often ill and in pain. ![]() 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. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. ![]()
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