Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 10:04:23  +0100
From: "John McWilliams" <jhm29-AT-cam.ac.uk>
Subject: PLC: Re: phillitcrit-digest V1 #193


--On Mon, Dec 1, 1997 1:38 pm phillitcrit-digest
<owner-phillitcrit-digest-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU> wrote: 

> images of acquisition: mine / rich / pregnant fancy;
> > precious / burnish'd gold/ exchequer / rak'd for ore etc. All very
> > interesting - damn I wish I had all day to talk about these sorts of
things
> > as you do, you lucky bastard. But I'd better go now...
> 
> Now see, this is what a list is all about! That is a wonderful literary
> "Arpeggio" of the two Donne works you have givin us.

Gee thanks, Thad... The thing is, though, that this arpeggio is actually
from Carew's elegy, not Donne himself. Easy mistake to make and an
instructive one. Carew deliberately echoes Donne's language as if to
literalise the point he is making: that creativity after Donne has been
rendered impossible. And so Carew's great regard for Donne is an uneasy one
indeed. But I really would look this poem up if you have the time - a study
of that and a couple of Donne poems would make a terrific term essay, and
you wouldn't need to read much criticism, it's all there in Carew. If you
do want to go into this more, I'm happy to blather further. Let me know...

Cheers, and I hope to be getting Craig back online soon.


John

P.S. Thanks, Sterling, for bringing me up to date on how to laugh out loud
over the internet


              =8B=8B=8B=8B=8B John McWilliams
                       Cambridge =8B=8B=8B=8B=8B                       



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