Word: hateth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...named Poppo, and makes literature an urgent affair. O.B. revels in Joyce, turns Kant dramatic, convulses his class by acting out John Donne's poem The Flea. Hummingly in tune with the student wave length, he translates the oracle's prediction in Arcadia ("An uncouth love which Nature hateth most") as meaning that, "put bluntly, the king's youngest daughter will become a lesbian." With a lyrical voice and a surging style, he also conveys his conviction that literature is "exciting, beautiful, profoundly moving...
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