Mainly a close reading of the unutterably subtle effects of the Song to Celia "Drink to me only with thine eyes."
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I’ll not look for wine.
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove’s nectar sup,
I would not change for thine.
I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
Not so much honouring thee
As giving it a hope, that there
It could not withered be.
But thou thereon didst only breathe,
And sent’st it back to me;
Since when it grows, and smells, I swear,
Not of itself, but thee.
What makes it a song? What makes it a story? What's their relation? A look at "So Beauty on the water stood," in this context:
So beauty on the waters stood,
When love had sever’d earth from flood.
So when he parted air from fire,
He did with concord all inspire.
And then a motion he them taught,
That elder than himself was thought,
Which thought was yet the child of earth,
For Love is elder than his birth.
And then a brief return to "On my first son":
Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;
My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy.
Seven years tho' wert lent to me, and I thee pay,
Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.
O, could I lose all father now! For why
Will man lament the state he should envy?
To have so soon 'scap'd world's and flesh's rage,
And if no other misery, yet age?
Rest in soft peace, and, ask'd, say, "Here doth lie
Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry."
For whose sake henceforth all his vows be such,
As what he loves may never like too much.
Early Romantics XVIII Wednesday 3-27-19 Henry Crabb Robinson on Blake on Wordsworth
Imagining Money XXV Wed 3-27-19 Common knowledge and such
Early Romantics XVII Mon 3-25-19 -- Intimations Ode 1-4 and opening of Prelude
Imagining Money XXIV Monday 3-25-19 How heterogeneous values are like gifts
Early Romantics XVI Wed 3-20-19 Mainly Lucy, mainly "A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal"
Imagining Money XXIII Thursday 3-21-19
Imagining Money XXII Wed 3-20-19 Prisoner's Dilemma
Early Romantics XV Monday 3-18-19 How Wordsworth is like Milton is like Blake
Imagining Money XXI Wed 3-13-19 Adam Smith on Beauty and Utility
Early Romantics XIV Wed 3-13-19 Mainly WW: "We Are Seven" with "Lines Written in Early Spring, and "Two April Mornings"
Early Romantics, XIII, Monday 3-11-19 Lyrical Ballads -- Goody Blake and Harry Gill
Imagining Money XX 3-11-19 Mandeville, Hume, Inflation
Imagining Money XIX Thursday 3-7-19 More Mandeville and value of honor and altruism
Early Romantics XII Wed 3-6-19 Blake's Milton with special guest
Imagining Money XVIII Wed 3-6-19
Imagining Money XVII Th Feb 28 2019 Mainly Mandeville
Early Romantics XI Wed 2-27-19 A class on Orc, Urizen, and Los
Imagning Money XVI Wed 2-27-19: More on the Gift
Early Romantics X Monday Feb 25 2019 Blake Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Imagining Money XV Monday Feb 25 2019
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