A “lifelong strainer after words and ideas,” a youthful Donne kept a commonplace book at Oxford-now lost Rundell suggests its technique of literary alchemy influenced his method of writing. “He reimagined and reinvented himself, over and over.” She nimbly captures Donne in all his guises as well as the historical period in which he lived. A staunch admirer-she places the “finest love poet in the English language” alongside Shakespeare-her book is an “act of evangelism.” Donne “was incapable of being just one thing,” writes the author. Prizewinning children’s-book author Rundell, a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, delivers a fresh, delightful biography of John Donne (1572-1631). An enthusiastic biography of the metaphysical poet, scholar, and cleric.
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