Is it significant that this is half the number of the Beast?
Hannibal
At 02:57 PM 4/25/05 -0400, you wrote:
>In Lanyer's _Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum_(1611) the actual story of
>Christ's passion begins at line 333. Don't know if this is
>accidental or a glance at commonplace numerology.
>
>Susanne
>
>
>>There's a reference to our savior's birth in the 364th line of canto 7
>>in Spenser's Mutability. Hamilton footnotes an unpublished paper by
>>Wall (John, I assume) on the calculations. Evidently if you count the
>>verses of the canto argument as four lines (n.b., JQ) this means that
>>the stanza in question (41, of course) begins on line 365. But this
>>strikes me as fudging. Either you get the savior born in your 365th
>>line or you don't.
>>
>>I certainly don't think it's bad poetry, but to me the numerology looks
>>both plausible and a bid shady.
>>
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>>Has anyone here ever tried to write a poem with numerological elements,
>>Epithalamion style? I do wonder what that process could actually be like
>>for a writer. My other query is, what examples are there of bad
>>numerological poetry? Not bad poetry, bad numerology. I'm sure there
>>must be something out there where the brilliant scheme is completely
>>confounded by the author's inability to multiply 52 by 365...
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