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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30. "Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world.. and is one."
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31. In some manuscripts, looks like Donne's "one world" is "our world" -- which supports Empson even more, I think.
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32. If Empson is right, the young Donne was deeply heretical: Christ was not unique, "ever planet could have its Incarnation"
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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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@HeerJeet have you read this—jesuit missionary sci-fi, and quite fascinating? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sparrow_(novel) …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@totallyslutsky Haven't read that -- I know other works in sub-genre
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@HeerJeet@totallyslutsky I immediately thought of 'The Sparrow' as well0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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