Alison:
> Well, I for one have been enjoying the Donne and Herbert; whichever was
the
> egg.
Three reasons why Herbert ripped Donne here:
(i) Donne was the older
(ii) Donne was the better
(iii) "The Extasie" (not, for all of me, the best of Donne's poems)
slips into the middle of The Donne Project.
Eddie Herbert's +Autobiography+ is worth reading -- but the idea that he was
even remotely relevant when it came to Descartes was a *joke*.
Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt, and I actually *did* read
his auto from end to end.
<sigh sorry sigh>
> Must read those metaphysicals again; though in the ranking I make a
> special plea for Herbert (George), whose musicality I can never resist.
You're right on George Herbert an I'm rong.
Just can't deal with the platitudinous Anglican theoligising, despite the
glory rhythms, and the way George writes his poems back from the last line
...
I loved him when I was eighteen, but I grew out of this, the same way I grew
out of an adolescent liking for Poe.
Sidney Lanier
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