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Douglas Brooks-Davies

Teoksen Robert Herrick tekijä

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Includes the name: Dr. Douglas Brooks-Davies

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Associated Works

Sananviejä (1953) — Johdanto, eräät painokset2,315 kappaletta
Joseph Andrews ; Shamela (1741) — Toimittaja, eräät painokset1,501 kappaletta

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Yleistieto

Syntymäaika
1942
Sukupuoli
male
Maa (karttaa varten)
United Kingdom
Syntymäpaikka
Wimbledon, South London, England, UK
Asuinpaikat
United Kingdom
Koulutus
Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby, UK
Brasenose College, Oxford
University of Liverpool (PhD)
Ammatit
Lecturer in English Literature
author
editor
composer
Suhteet
Brooks-Davies, Mary (spouse)
Organisaatiot
The University of Manchester
Lyhyt elämäkerta
His hobbies include gardening, singing, and playing the oboe.

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Herrick wrote so well we hardly notice. A brilliant translator, he often improves on the Latin: "I ask't thee oft, what Poets thou hast read?/
And liks't the best? Still thou reply'st, 'The Dead.'" This is Martial, " Miraris veteres," 8.69. An Anglican minister whose Devon church and house-in-exile still stand just off the main highway (at Dean Prior), he wrote the most famous Cavalier poem on erection, "The Vine." This uses a dream and a gardening metaphor, 'Me thought, her long small legs and thighs / I with my tendrils did surprise," and concludes,"And with the fancy I awook; /And found (Ah me!)
this mortal part of mine / More like a Stock than like a Vine."
To sum his genius, see him fit Latinate, ponderous words into light, short meter, four beat lines: "When as in silks my Julia goes / Then, then (me thinks) how sweetly flows / The liquefation of her clothes."
My personal favorite shows Herrick the clergyman syncretizing classical and Christian gods: "The gods require the thighs / Of beeves for sacrifice /
Which roasted, we the steam / High-towering raise to them, / Who, though they do not eat, / Yet love the smell of meat." Something deeply personal as well as professional here; Herrick combines his asceticism and his sensuality in another syncretism.
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Jäseniä
139
Suosituimmuussija
#147,351
Arvio (tähdet)
3.8
Kirja-arvosteluja
1
ISBN:t
18

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