tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post7940223884406117572..comments2023-05-29T11:05:33.212+01:00Comments on hardPressed poetry: Herbert John Clifford GriersonhardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-14613856862905388142010-11-24T10:13:39.225+00:002010-11-24T10:13:39.225+00:00So does that make us, then, electively affinite co...So does that make us, then, electively affinite corks tossing unheroically on a post-academic ocean?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-73220844838250803872010-11-23T08:11:10.458+00:002010-11-23T08:11:10.458+00:00Very true, TC.Very true, TC.hardPressed poetryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-32827265722796092212010-11-20T08:00:43.821+00:002010-11-20T08:00:43.821+00:00'Twould be pleasant to think the obscure depar...'Twould be pleasant to think the obscure departmental corridors of the contemporary academic world were being infiltrated by mute inglorious Griersons, but alas... one fears the abyss between the terms "academic" and "hero" yawns ever wider with the passing days.<br /><br />Still, thanks for the memories. You have caused me to go and fish from the mouldy shelves, late on this gelid, dripping night, the hoary, foxed copy of "Metaphysical Poems & Lyrics of the Seventeenth Century" which has somehow survived the years.<br /><br />And I find that the first poem in it is still perhaps the best: <br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/john-donne-good-morrow.html" rel="nofollow">John Donne: The good-morrow</a><br /><br />I see that Grierson, in his notes on the closing triplet, attests first Aquinas, and then Coleridge: "Too good for mere wit. It contains a deep practical truth..."<br /><br />May learning rise again some day, though to imagine the dismal ashes of Instant Theory issuing such a renascent flame is not at all easy.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com