Actually, reading English usually gives one access to pretty much
anything written in the language, even Anglican texts. Eucharist not
required for admission.
Surprised no one's mentioned Milton re: religious poetry. Has he
become that unfashionable?
Mark
At 11:30 PM 3/18/2006, you wrote:
>Though Ken Wolman in his snap was of course alluding to Herbert's "Love," I
>thought the passage from "Easter" more relevant to the discussion which
>subsequently developed. Herbert, like Donne, shows that one need not be a
>co-religionist to be impressed by good devotional poetry. The magical charm
>of the Herbert poem is as obvious as it is impossible to analyze, but to
>understand the technical and generic profundity and brilliance of
>these lines,
>it's necessary to remember that they're one of the innumberable natural
>children of Catullus 5.
>
>This isn't the place to go into my own religious beliefs (which I couldn't
>possibly explain in less than two hours of exegesis, and only that assumimg
>you had read some dozen books of my designation first, and no there's no
>reason on earth you should bother,) but I must admit being an Anglican gives
>one access to a great deal of beautiful language.
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