| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
xxvi, 565 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: London : Viking, 2006. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-534) and index. |
| Summary |
Metamorphosing from scholar to buccaneer, from outcast to establishment figure, John Donne emerged as one of the greatest English poets, concentrating the paradoxes of his age within his own crises of desire and devotion. Following Donne from plague-ridden streets to palaces, from the taverns on the Bankside to the pulpit of St. Paul's, John Stubbs's biography is a vivid portrait of an extraordinary writer and his country at a time of bewildering and cruel transformation.--From publisher description. |
| Contents |
1572-1602 -- The den -- Henry -- Cadiz -- The islands -- Captain Donne -- The secretary -- Lost words -- The rebels -- The member -- The undoing -- 1603-1616 -- Sunrise -- The Close Prison at MItcham -- Irregularities -- The apparition -- A valediction to the world -- 1617-1631 -- Stone -- The torn ship -- Clay -- The spouse -- Devotions -- The old player -- The reprimand -- The likeness. |
| Subject |
Donne, John, 1572-1631.
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Donne, John, 1572-1631. |
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Poets, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography.
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Poets, English -- Early modern -- Biography. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780393062601 |
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0393062600 |
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