Super-infinite: the transformations of John Donne

Introduction

The prodigious child

The hungry scholar

The exquisitely clothed theoriser on fashion

Brother to a dead man

The convert (perhaps)

The (unsuccessful) adventurer

The inexperienced expert of love

The erratic collector of his own talent

The witness of disastrous intrigue

The paradoxical quibbler, taking aim at women

Anne

The daring of the lover, and the imprisoned groom

The anticlimatically married man

The ambivalent father

How to pretend you have read more than you have

The suicidal man

The flatterer

The clergyman

The widower

The (unsuccessful) diplomat

The dean

The monied

Donne and death

Super-infinite.