John Donne - The Reformed Soul

Informationen zum Autor John Stubbs was born in 1977 and studied English at Oxford and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge where he completed a doctorate in 2005. Donne: The Reformed Soul was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Reprobates was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Klappentext A vibrant portrait of one of this country's most romantic figures and of seventeenth century England with its horrifying cruelty and wars! sectarianism and disease. Donne journeyed from buccaneer to scholar! from outcast to establishment figure to become England's greatest love poet. Zusammenfassung From the raucous streets of late sixteenth-century London to the personal and political intrigues of Donne's family and public life, from the horrors of the Reformation to the delight of Donne's poetry, this book offers a biography of an extraordinary man, as well as a compelling portrait of England at a time of bewildering transformation.

Product details

• Authors: John Stubbs, Stubbs John
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.06.2007
• EAN: 9780141017174
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101717-4
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Englisch, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, Biografien: Literatur, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Biography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military, Literary studies: poetry and poets