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Nine finalists, chosen by a faculty committee last month from over 40 entrants, recited pieces by a variety of writers, including Donne, Browning, Yeats and Dylan Thomas.
Anyone who thinks a new prayer book [Feb. 9] will help us Anglicans should attend his nearest Roman Catholic Church next Sunday to see what a mess they made of their English translation. There are plenty of churches around for the semiliterate. Suppose somebody had tried to make Shakespeare or...
As Ramsey and others have noted, death is a dread enemy to Christians, but it is not ultimately evil. In John Donne's words, "One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,/ And death shall be no more, death thou shalt die."
It was typical then, after a meal, for students and professors to go into the "Senior" Common Room and continue talking about John Donne or whatever it was. That almost never happens now on its own. Now it has to be more organized."
Greene compares Rochester's poetry to that of Donne, and in at least one respect he's right: "Both poets were driven by the circumstances of their lives to be satirists." But Lord Rochester's Monkey goes too far in ascribing to Rochester (based mostly on his death-bed return...