John Donne: The Reformed Soul: A Biography

John Donne: The Reformed Soul: A Biography by Stubbs, John. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780393062601.

"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. Pauls, John Stubbss biography is a vivid portrait of an extraordinary writer and his country at a time of bewildering and cruel transformation.