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.
Imagining Money XIV Thursday 2-15-19 Mainly Merchant of Venice and the Bible
Early Romantics IX Wed 2-13-19: Book of Thel
Imagining Money XIII Wednesday Feb 13 2019, mainly about usury
Early Romantics VIII Monday Feb 11 2019 mainly on most of Thel
Imagining Money XII Feb 10 2019 Kawabata, Exodus, Shakespeare
Early Romanticism VII -- more Blake
Imagining Money XI, Thursday 2-7-19 Game theory: Keynesian Beauty Contests, Stampedes and Panics
Imagining Money X Wednesday February 6 2019 -- Merchant of Venice and Ezra Pound
Romanticism VI 2-4-19 Blake's There is no Natural Religion, and some songs of Experience
Imagining Money IX Monday February 4, 2019
Imagining Money VIII Thursday January 31 -- Mostly Marx
Romanticism, Class V: Mainly on "All Religions Are One"
Imagining Money VII Wednesday Jan 30 2019
Romanticism Class IV: Songs of Innocence
Imagining Money VI 1-28-19
Imagining Money V Thursday Jan 24 2019 -- Midas and money
Romanticism, class III: Nurses Songs, Milton
Imagining Money IV Wednesday Jan 23 2019
Imagining Money III 1-22-19
English Romanticism: Blake, WW, STC second class 1-22-19
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