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Quote of the Day by the greatest love poet John Donne: 'Despair is the damp of hell…'-How the metaphysical poet's representative turned human suffering into timeless wisdom

English poet John Donne's profound words on despair and joy resonate today. His quote, 'Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven,' captures the suffocating nature of hopelessness. Donne, who faced immense personal loss, understood emotional pain deeply. His writings offer solace, reminding readers that…

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Lady Day: March 25 was the start of the year in England and Wales until 1752

We associate New Year with deep mid-winter and the tidy date of January 1, but for 600 years between 1155 until 1752 in England and Wales the new year began on 25 March. This day was one of the quarter days that divided the year historically and on which rents…

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3 Australian poets explore sites of memory and history – with a degree of play

It was the French historian Pierre Nora who coined the term lieux de mémoire – “sites of memory”. He meant to suggest that places and objects can embody or contain personal and collective memories, and that such memories can also obtain in the intangible – in a scent or a…

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Eight of the most romantic poems to read to your love this Valentine’s Day

For many of us, the run-up to Valentine’s Day is spent seeking out the least cringe-worthy card in the shop to gift to our significant other, and show them how we really feel. But, unfortunately, Hallmark rhymes rarely mine the depths of love and desire.

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John Keats statue to be unveiled near his birthplace in London’s Moorgate

Martin Jennings – whose previous public sculptures include John Betjeman, George Orwell and Philip Larkin – has based his bronze on a life cast of the poet, taken when he was 21

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Pat Barker: ‘When I first read Pride and Prejudice, I hated it’

The author on reimagining Homer, the sexiness of John Donne’s sonnets, and what she’s learned from Margaret Atwood

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A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton review – anatomy of hypochondria

Memoir, cultural history and bleak humour characterise this brilliant personal exploration of health anxiety

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Travelling to see the Lothian Portrait and church treasures

Letters: Wendy Johnson was disappointed not to be able to see a John Donne painting at the National Portrait Gallery, while Bob Jay has advice for art enthusiasts visiting Kent

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‘A true original’: Katherine Rundell on the genius of Diana Wynne Jones

Long before Harry Potter went to Hogwarts, Diana Wynne Jones wrote about a school for witches. Fifty years after the author of Howl’s Moving Castle published her first novel for children, Rundell celebrates the writer who inspired her own fantasy debut

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Why American culture fixates on the tragic image of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the most famous man behind the atomic bomb

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s triumph was his tragedy. Oppenheimer had many achievements in theoretical physics but is remembered as the so-called father of the atomic bomb. Under his directorship, scientists at Los Alamos Laboratory, where the bomb was designed and built, forever changed how people view the world, adding a new…

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John Legend on going solo, why he won't run for political office, his teenage crush and lessons from Kanye

No man is an island, as John Donne wrote in his oft-quoted 1624 poem, but veteran singer-songwriter John Legend will sink or swim on his own when he takes to the stage on his current tour. Playing without his band and backing singers, his "An Evening with John Legend" concerts…

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Poem of the week: Of Human Knowledge by Sir John Davies

A sharp and lucid case for gaining wisdom through adversity rather than books

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Katherine Rundell: ‘My party trick is knowing Jane Austen’s Emma off by heart’

The author on Vladimir Nabokov’s footnotes, James Baldwin’s essays and returning to Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety

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‘Happiness can be ignited by making something small infinite’: what makes me happy now

If the last few years have taught us anything, writes Robert Dessaix, it’s that happiness and sadness, even misery can go together

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Memoirs, cookery and must-read novels: the best books of 2022

Fiona Lensvelt has your guide to the best last-minute buys before Christmas — there’s something for everyone here...

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Poem of the week: Holy Sonnet XIX by John Donne

The great love poet is here locked in an anxious wrestle with his religious conscience

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The best memoirs and biographies of 2022

Heartfelt memoirs from Richard E Grant and Viola Davis, childhood tales of religious dogma, and vivid insights into Agatha Christie and John Donne

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‘You might as well be on the moon’: the authors taking residence in Derek Jarman’s home

Deborah Levy and Juno Dawson are among the writers and artists who have stayed at the film-maker’s cottage in Dungeness. On a rare tour of the property, Laura Barton hears how the project came about

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Biography of poet John Donne wins UK nonfiction book prize

A book that argues Elizabethan poet John Donne should rank alongside William Shakespeare as a literary genius has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book award

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‘Taking life advice from John Donne would be disastrous’ – the roof-walking, trapeze-flying Baillie Gifford winner

Katherine Rundell has just become the youngest ever winner of the prestigious literary prize – for a biography of ‘poet of desire’ John Donne. Why is she giving the £50,000 away? Because, she says, no man is an island

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‘Exquisitely rendered’ biography of poet wins Baillie Gifford Prize

Katherine Rundell’s book Super-Infinite: The Transformations Of John Donne took the author 10 years and three drafts to write.

The Guardian - UK

£50K Baillie Gifford non-fiction prize won by Katherine Rundell

The acclaimed children’s author won for her book Super-Infinite, described as a ‘glorious celebration’ of the life and work of poet John Donne

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A sexual radical at 17 and 70, Gwen Harwood’s frank erotic poetry reflected an ardent life

The poetry of Gwen Harwood was strikingly unconventional, yet for most of her career, she was not considered especially radical. This was partly because she tended to use traditional forms; in a time of experimentation, new forms – or no form at all – seemed synonymous with new ideas.

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Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell review – a deft portrait of John Donne

Rundell captures John Donne’s unique vision in all its power, eloquence and strangeness

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Plague poems, defiant wit and penis puns: why John Donne is a poet for our times

Master of the Revels at a time of persecution, Donne broke new ground with poems that burst with sexual desire and intellectual curiosity

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