24. My thoughts on Donne shaped by William Empson's controversial 1957 essay "Donne the Space Man" (in his Essays on Renaissance Literature)
33. Empson adds that Donne later became more orthodox. And I'll add Empson's analysis remains very controversial among Donne scholars.
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34. But I think Empson was on to something.There's good reason to read John Donne as a writer of proto-science-fiction.
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35. Larger point I want to end with is that Donne & Milton weren't purely religious writers but also writers who wrestled with science.
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