Island Poetry

The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 05 Aug 1997
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/130

Ranjit Bhatnagar05 Aug 1997, 16:35original
1 quoted line
And missing thee, I walk unseen
Milton, Il Penseroso, which begins Hence vain deluding joyes, The brood of folly without father bred, How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toyes;
1 quoted line
The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns
Enoch Arden? "a passage much quoted already and which will be no doubt often quoted, the description of Enoch's tropical island." -- Gerard Manley Hopkins writing to A. W. M. Baillie. I'm no scholar; I just plugged 'em into AltaVista and HotBot. No luck digging up the haiku. (www.altavista.digital.com; www.hotbot.com) Milton poem: http://www.lexmark.com/data/poem/milton02.html Hopkins' letter mentioning Arden: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_se/Hopkins.html

Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.