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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 02:25:22 +0100
From: "Joerg T. Gruel" <jtg-AT-owl-online.de>
Subject: Re: PLC: Romanticism & higher pantheism



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 Of course we are agreed.To be frank, I just had missed your point in that High/low distinction.  Still -  isn't the human breast a far too shaky residence for the gods? No wonder that some of them prefer the more sulphuric realms.

"The Fisherman" may be found at our interimistic test web site, which, together with a crashing system,  kept me from pondering  the more subtle aspects of high/low pantheism. As for Li Bo, well, you're right,  it's silly to speak that categorically of things one can't really judge from the original - must have been the druid. But there's Ezra's "Kathay"; and then,  I even had a Chinese friend, who could sing his songs to the gu jin. Which isn't an excuse.

Cheers,

Joerg


George Trail wrote:

> So we are more agreed that it originally appears, yes? I said Blake was a
> much higher romantic than Goethe. You said Goethe, properly, wasn't a
> romantic at all, with which Blake agrees, and so with Wordsworth whom Blake
> sees as having been unable to make the thoroughgoing cut required to
> recognize that _all_ gods reside in the human breast.
>
> I didn't diss Goethe, whom I will admit right off to read only with a
> little more facility than I can Li Bo. And I don't know "The Fisherman."
>



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 Of course we are agreed.To be frank, I just had missed your point in that High/low distinction.  Still -  isn't the human breast a far too shaky residence for the gods? No wonder that some of them prefer the more sulphuric realms.

"The Fisherman" may be found at our interimistic test web site, which, together with a crashing system,  kept me from pondering  the more subtle aspects of high/low pantheism. As for Li Bo, well, you're right,  it's silly to speak that categorically of things one can't really judge from the original - must have been the druid. But there's Ezra's "Kathay"; and then,  I even had a Chinese friend, who could sing his songs to the gu jin. Which isn't an excuse.

Cheers,

Joerg
 

George Trail wrote:

So we are more agreed that it originally appears, yes? I said Blake was a
much higher romantic than Goethe. You said Goethe, properly, wasn't a
romantic at all, with which Blake agrees, and so with Wordsworth whom Blake
sees as having been unable to make the thoroughgoing cut required to
recognize that _all_ gods reside in the human breast.

I didn't diss Goethe, whom I will admit right off to read only with a
little more facility than I can Li Bo. And I don't know "The Fisherman."
 

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