Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects two short programmes: John Donne - Super Infinite a biography ...

John Donne’s reply to Marlowe, perhaps written to amuse fellow residents at the Inns of Court, where he was once Master of the Revels, also reads a bit like satire. “Come live with me, and be my love, ...

The title of Katherine Rundell’s biography of the Renaissance poet and divine, John Donne, comes from his sermons, which few people read today. In a funeral sermon for Magdalen Herbert (the mother of ...

(A review of Hugh l'Anson Fausset's John Donne: A Study in Discord.) The eighteenth century, with its regard for symmetry and definition, preferred to keep biography and criticism separated; or, if ...

If you were a gentleman in Elizabethan London, a gentleman of more or less regular means and habits, your typical day went something like this: You rose at 4 a.m., you wrote 14 letters and a 30-page ...

Why do we humans make and listen to poetry? “The world is charged with the grandeur of God” — everything in it is worthy of our attention. A poet fixes our gaze on some God-created being or experience ...

THE author explains in his preface that, while this book was undertaken as an “academic exercise”, it fulfils a long-standing desire dating from a time many years earlier when he fell under the spell ...

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne. By Katherine Rundell. Faber & Faber; 339 pages; £16.95. To be published in America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in September; $30 The centenaries of ...

Researchers have created an auditory and visual simulation of what it might have been like to stand in front of St Paul's Cross pulpit in the courtyard of St Paul's Cathedral almost 400 years ago, ...

Death mark of the poet John Donne, engraved by Martin Droeshout, London 1632. (Photo by Bettmann / Getty) During the 16th century, the English were unusually spirited in their destruction of Catholics ...