The Lady and the Poet, by Maeve Haran

August 4, 2017

The Lady and the Poet, by Maeve Haran (St. Martin’s Griffin; Reprint edition, March 15, 2011)

Many excellent Künstlerromane have been written – Jane Jakeman’s In the Kingdom of Mists, about Claude Monet, and Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier, about Johannes Vermeer. Haran’s The Lady and the Poet, about Elizabethan poet John Donne and his wife, Ann More, compares well to others in this category. Haran has written an engaging, eloquent imagining of their contentious love affair and their struggle against the class inequalities that typified 16^th century England. Donne wrote of his marriage to Ann: “We had not one another at so cheap a rate, as that we should ever be weary of one another,” and the commitment, passion and intellectual compatibility underlying this statement are beautifully portrayed in the novel.

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