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Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction べいりー・ぎふぉーど・ぷらいず

Edition 24 (2022)

NonfictionHistoryPoliticsScienceSportsTravelBiographyAutobiographyArtsCurrent affairs

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Super-Infinite is a biographical work of nonfiction built around the life and poetry of John Donne, where love, faith, politics, and loss are tightly intertwined. It recasts Donne as a figure who was both a scholar and a cleric, and it brings the modern force of his writing into sharp focus.

A biography that rereads the many-sided life of poet John Donne for contemporary readers.

224 pages
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