18. Cosmological revolution overlapped with "Age of Discovery" -- exploration and conquest of "New Words" of the Americas.
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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29. With Empson in mind, read Donne's "The Good-Marrow": http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173360
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