Edition details
The Life of Dr John Donne; Late Dean of St.Paul's Church, London by Izaak Walton. Introduced by Colin Ward. Lithographic portrait frontispiece. Quarter-bound in green moire silk with marbled paper covers, spine and cover labels. Glassine cover, no slipcase. 77pp. 25x16.3cm.
About the book
The Life of Dr John Donne presents the life of the great English metaphysical poet and clergyman John Donne, tracing his transformation from adventurous young writer and courtier to one of the most celebrated preachers of seventeenth-century England. The biography explores Donne's education, love, marriage, religious development and literary career, revealing the complex personality behind poetry of remarkable wit, passion and spiritual intensity. Donne's life encompassed dramatic changes in fortune, faith and public position, and the work places his writing within the religious and intellectual world of Jacobean England. It offers a portrait of the man behind the love poems, satires, sermons and devotional works that made Donne one of the most distinctive voices in English literature.
