17. The meeting with Galileo should remind us that Milton lived in the wake of a cosmological revolution: Copernicus, Bruno & beyond
26. Empson: Donne "was interested in getting to another planet...he brought the idea into practically all his best love-poems."
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27. Empson reads Donne's love poems as science fiction: lovers are on another world, where man is a new Christ.
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28. Important innovation: in earlier poetry, lover could be like Christ. In Donne, on new planet, lover is a Christ.Each planet has a Christ
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