约翰·多恩有时是宗教界的局外人,有时是社会灾难,有时是名人传教士,有时是建制派的宠儿,他不能只做一件事。
在他无数的一生中,他是一名法学学者、一名海上冒险家、一名牧师、一名议员——也许是英语史上最伟大的爱情诗人。一路上,他从天主教皈依了新教,因为未经父亲同意娶了一个16岁的女孩而入狱;努力养活一个有十个孩子的家庭;而且经常生病和痛苦。他是一个饱受苦难之苦的人,但在他的诗中表达了许多令人惊叹的电性欢乐和爱的印象。
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing.
In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP – and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Along the way he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year old girl without her father’s consent; struggled to feed a family of ten children; and was often ill and in pain. He was a man who suffered from black surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love.
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