San Diego Union-Tribune: Biography of poet John Donne wins UK nonfiction book prize
The title of Katherine Rundell’s biography of the Renaissance poet and divine, John Donne, comes from his sermons, which few people read today. In a funeral sermon for Magdalen Herbert (the mother of ...
The Hill: Biography of poet John Donne wins UK nonfiction book prize
Finally a biography of John Donne that captures his eccentricities, his contradictions, his fabulous twists and turns, his trickiness, and—as one critic has put it—his thinking “awry and squint.” ...
Daily Mail: Sharply animated and imaginative: Katherine Rundell's biography of poet, lover and preacher John Donne is anything but a dry academic tome
Best known as an author of children’s books, Katherine Rundell is also a scholar of the Renaissance at All Souls, Oxford, and this biography of the poet and priest John Donne is grounded in research ...
Sharply animated and imaginative: Katherine Rundell's biography of poet, lover and preacher John Donne is anything but a dry academic tome
Hindustan Times: Biography calls John Donne great as Shakespeare, wins UK nonfiction book prize
British writer Katherine Rundell’s biography “Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne” was named winner of the 50,000 pound ($59,000) Baillie Gifford Prize at a ceremony in London.
Biography calls John Donne great as Shakespeare, wins UK nonfiction book prize
Death mark of the poet John Donne, engraved by Martin Droeshout, London 1632. (Photo by Bettmann / Getty) During the 16th century, the English were unusually spirited in their destruction of Catholics ...
LONDONLONDON — A book that argues Elizabethan poet John Donne should rank alongside William Shakespeare as a literary genius has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book award British writer Katherine ...