Donne is best known as a poet of love, never describing physical beauty in detail yet brilliantly able to recreate a man's experience of love's emotions and realities, but he is much else besides. He is a poet of the spiritual journey who in his power speaks to others in travail, a great preacher who soars into word-music and encapsulates complex theology in illuminating epigrams.
David Edwards ranges across all Donne's writings, including the critically neglected sermons, to produce a new and compelling biography of this tortured and contradictory figure.
