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SCOTT HORTON?Donne?s Poem of Love? and Torture |
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Contributed by Scott Horton
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Love?s Exchange
Donne?s poetry isn?t so easy to master. His near contemporary Ben Jonson and his later advocate William Hazlitt both seem to have formed the same view, namely that Donne was a brilliant man, a poetic genius. But he expressed himself in a fashion so obscure that few even among the well educated would invest the time and energy necessary to crack his code. Of course, you can read the love poetry and accept it as that, as something surprisingly erotic for a man whose intellect moves quickly towards the divine. But it?s clear enough in most of these works that there?s a vastly more complex game going on under the surface, something profoundly esoteric. A game that requires patience and forensic skill to master. And after a while you give up, thinking that you don?t have the time to do the dissertation in Elizabethan metaphysical thought that would be necessary to unlock all of this. . . .
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