![]() Much that might aid his biographer is lost. ![]() Lucy’s Day,” “The Sun Rising,” “Death Be Not Proud”), few of which were published in his lifetime, and are hard to date or link to his personal experience. His literary range is daunting too, including a heretical book on suicide, religious devotions, sermons, letters and roughly 200 poems, many of which rank among the finest in the language (“The Canonization,” “A Nocturnal Upon St. Before his death at age 58 or 59, Donne would witness or experience religious persecution, warfare, imprisonment, conversion, foreign travel, illness, loss and plague. To write about his tumultuous life demands grappling with the many dangers and uncertainties of Elizabethan times. ![]() ![]() SUPER-INFINITE: The Transformations of John Donne, by Katherine RundellĪ biographer of John Donne faces unusual hurdles. ![]()
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