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John Donne is best known as England's poet of love -- but he was much else besides. He was also a peerless writer of the spiritual journey, a stalwart churchman, and a great preacher. Yet behind this famed public face there also lived a lesser known tortured and contradictory figure.This extraordinary biography paints a compelling new portrait of Donne as a man of both spirit and flesh. David Edwards ranges across all of Donne's writings, including critically neglected sermons, using them to illuminate Donne's life and vice versa. Itself a masterpiece of writing, this book challenges common views with wit and a critical compassion that does not fail to let Donne speak to readers in his own words.
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John Donne, David Lawrence Edwards
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2002
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- Titel
- John Donne
- Untertitel
- Man of Flesh and Spirit
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- David Lawrence Edwards
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2002
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 368
- ISBN10
- 0802805221
- ISBN13
- 9780802805225
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Persönlichkeiten
- Bewertung
- 3,7 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- John Donne is best known as England's poet of love -- but he was much else besides. He was also a peerless writer of the spiritual journey, a stalwart churchman, and a great preacher. Yet behind this famed public face there also lived a lesser known tortured and contradictory figure.This extraordinary biography paints a compelling new portrait of Donne as a man of both spirit and flesh. David Edwards ranges across all of Donne's writings, including critically neglected sermons, using them to illuminate Donne's life and vice versa. Itself a masterpiece of writing, this book challenges common views with wit and a critical compassion that does not fail to let Donne speak to readers in his own words.