And Daljit reads from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month - Gravity Archives by Andrew Motion. ***Super-Infinite ep 3/5 ...
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, ...
John Donne: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs 536pp, Viking, £20 The picture of John Donne "in the pose of a melancholy lover", which was recently bought by the National Portrait Gallery, has once ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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