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La dodicesima notte (1601) — A cura di, alcune edizioni10,701 copie

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Oh, the wonder that is here! Francis Bacon and his mind like a steele trappe. Thomas Browne and his mind like a Rube Goldberg machine, where the ball passes through the tube, hits the lever, the lever rises, taps the button, the button adminsters a shock to the parrot, the parrot goes "roooaaaak! my ass! roooaaak!" and takes flight, the plunger on which he was sitting rises, the cage door opens, the mouse runs out, the cat catches the mouse, the little girl cries, the old miser's heart melts, and he donates $100 million to build a new basketball court for the orphanage. Thomas Traherne and his mind like eternal spotless sunshine, joy and judgment and jugular-ripping piety. Rabelaisian Jonson, Puritan Milton, Cavalier poet Thomas Carew, who I'll be honest I remember as much for the fact that his name is pronounced "Carey" as for his verse, the metaphysixxx, Lovelace and Herrick and Marvell (who despite being not a first-circle figure may just have the best poem in this book, "To his coy mistress", and I don't care if that makes you yawn, it makes a certain celestial body run), Hobbes, who if you're not a little afraid of Hobbes still you haven't been paying attention or you actually think Obama fixed everything, you cock.


Most of all, Donne, Donne, Donne. Every time I think I'm just pretending to love poetry I remember Donne and fireworks with lilybuds happen inside.


Books like this are doomed not to be judged on content (a billion five-star ratings bloom herein) but on curatorial choices, and this is the rare massive anthology that I think could be even massiver, in this case only to include the dramatists of the period, simply because the 17th century is when modern man was born and if you exclude Shakespeare and Marlowe you reduce it programmatically to a question of science and religion, faith and conscience, which is huge and central but which just doesn't leave enough represented my inkling that the even-more-key moment of the 17th c. is stepping off onto that beach, whether it's shipwrecked Viola or "brave new world that has such creatures in it!" or Faust on the astral plane. This was the century when we started to talk in earnest about what stuff dreams, and we, are made on, and while the versifiers and essayists explore that question in their profusion, the addition of the dramatists would have given us less godtological and more intoxicating an overture.
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MeditationesMartini | Oct 15, 2010 |
Important works in English and English translation that formed the basis of the English language and usage as we now know it.
 
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