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.
16 -- Lyrical Ballads. Ballads. Lyric. (English 1a)
Intro (1a) class 15: How to write. More Blake -- The Chimney Sweeper
Pope and then Blake (14th episode of Intro to Lit)
Lit 1, episode 13: Rape of the Lock
Into to Lit, episode 12: Last class on Paradise Lost: The real unreality of our lives
Lit 1, part 11: Invocation to Book 7; Calliope and Orpheus; the Fall
Intro to Lit 10: Catching up on Milton
Milton on free will; ordering of the story; invocation and voice; light
Intro to Lit 8: Shelley and Milton's sardonic God; moral judgment
More on the sublime: Burke and Satan
Lit analysis 6: First class on Paradise Lost = Blake and Shelley...
Intro to Lit 5: Lear, Tate, Addison, Johnson, Freud
Intro, class 4: Testing in Lear; parallax; doubling; the Fool
Shakespeare and window characters
Intro to lit 2: Love personified from Surrey to Bishop
Introduction to Literary Studies - 1: Carroll, Jonson, Yeats
26. Milton: freedom and necessity, the tyrant's plea
19. Last film class: Peeping Tom and lots of psychoanalytic talk about scopohilia
25. Some more on Paradise Lost
24. First class on Milton
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