John Donne And His World
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Good.
Few poets have lived as turbulently and written as immortally as John Donne — lawyer, courtier, secret husband, and Dean of St Paul's — whose life was a perpetual collision between earthly passion and divine longing. Derek Parker's John Donne and his world chronicles the arc of Donne's extraordinary life against the vivid backdrop of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, presenting the social, political, and religious forces that shaped both the man and his art. Rich with period illustration and grounded in meticulous scholarship, the work situates Donne's celebrated sonnets, elegies, and sermons within the living texture of his age, illuminating the contradictions of a genius who could write with equal brilliance of erotic conquest and holy terror. Parker argues, compellingly, that Donne cannot be understood apart from his world — a world of plague and patronage, religious upheaval and courtly ambition — and the biography's narrative momentum ensures that the poet's inner life is never reduced to mere historical footnote. Written with clarity and authority, this volume stands as both an accessible introduction for the curious reader and a richly detailed portrait for the dedicated student of English literature. For anyone who has ever felt the uncanny modernity of Donne's verse, this book reveals exactly how a man of his time became a poet for all time.
Author: Derek Parker
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Good.
Few poets have lived as turbulently and written as immortally as John Donne — lawyer, courtier, secret husband, and Dean of St Paul's — whose life was a perpetual collision between earthly passion and divine longing. Derek Parker's John Donne and his world chronicles the arc of Donne's extraordinary life against the vivid backdrop of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, presenting the social, political, and religious forces that shaped both the man and his art. Rich with period illustration and grounded in meticulous scholarship, the work situates Donne's celebrated sonnets, elegies, and sermons within the living texture of his age, illuminating the contradictions of a genius who could write with equal brilliance of erotic conquest and holy terror. Parker argues, compellingly, that Donne cannot be understood apart from his world — a world of plague and patronage, religious upheaval and courtly ambition — and the biography's narrative momentum ensures that the poet's inner life is never reduced to mere historical footnote. Written with clarity and authority, this volume stands as both an accessible introduction for the curious reader and a richly detailed portrait for the dedicated student of English literature. For anyone who has ever felt the uncanny modernity of Donne's verse, this book reveals exactly how a man of his time became a poet for all time.