Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell

A portrait of John Donne — rake, poet, priest and more — which brings out his vitality; a man whose life had been touched by despair but who chose to eke what joy he could of it, whose genius lived beside pettyness, whose immediacy and voraciousness for life and living and loving and books is apparent even today, who was politically circumspect (except perhaps once by accident in the throes of grief) and somehow radical too, who helped reshape the English language...