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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Wednesday Jan 29, 2014
5. 17th Century Poetry Donne's "Go and Catch a Falling Star" and "The Ecstasy"
Wednesday Jan 29, 2014
Wednesday Jan 29, 2014
The puzzling -- even mysterious last lines of "Go and Catch a Falling Star." How not to read them. Their relation to "The Ecstasy" and the questions of bodies and minds, thus absence and presence. And the odd presence in Donne of a third person there, in so many poems.
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