num_pages: 592
description: "Will reveal Donne to a new generation...[and] propel John Stubbs into the first rank of biographers."―Peter Ackroyd Metamorphosing from scholar to buccaneer, from outcast to establishment figure, John Donne emerged as one of the greatest English poets, concentrating the paradoxes of his age within his own crises of desire and devotion. Following Donne from Plague-ridden streets to palaces, from the taverns on the Bankside to the pulpit of St. Paul's, John Stubbs's biography is a vivid portrait of an extraordinary writer and his country at a time of bewildering and cruel transformation.
language: English
title: John Donne: The Reformed Soul
titlecomplete: John Donne: The Reformed Soul
genres: Classics, British Literature, History, Literary Criticism, Biography Memoir, Biography, Poetry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 268
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Guardian First Book Award
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Costa Book Award
category: Biography, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: RSL Jerwood Award
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company