Island Poetry

Ranjit Bhatnagar · 05 Aug 1997, 16:35 · from urth-v0003.mbox · original

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From: Ranjit Bhatnagar <ranjit at moonmilk.com>
Subject: (urth) Island Poetry
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 16:35:00
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> And missing thee, I walk unseen

Milton, Il Penseroso, which begins=20

	Hence vain deluding joyes,=20
        The brood of folly without father bred,=20
	How little you bested,=20
        Or fill the fixed mind with all your toyes;=20


> 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)=20

Milton poem:
	http://www.lexmark.com/data/poem/milton02.html
Hopkins' letter mentioning Arden:
	http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_se/Hopkins.html

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