He was a man who suffered from black surges of sadness, yet expressed in his verse electric joy and love. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a high-born girl without her father’s consent, struggled to feed a family of ten children, and was often ill and in pain. Paul’s Cathedral-and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. From a standout scholar, a biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.
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