24. Now, Empson was both a very great literary critic and a very eccentric, even loopy, guy. Here's a photo:pic.twitter.com/kCUU6qkH5P
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24. Now, Empson was both a very great literary critic and a very eccentric, even loopy, guy. Here's a photo:pic.twitter.com/kCUU6qkH5P
25. Empson's argument: When young, Donne deeply shaped by cosmological revolution, wondered about how space aliens would know Christ
26. Empson: Donne "was interested in getting to another planet...he brought the idea into practically all his best love-poems."
27. Empson reads Donne's love poems as science fiction: lovers are on another world, where man is a new Christ.
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
29. With Empson in mind, read Donne's "The Good-Marrow": http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173360
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."
31. In some manuscripts, looks like Donne's "one world" is "our world" -- which supports Empson even more, I think.
32. If Empson is right, the young Donne was deeply heretical: Christ was not unique, "ever planet could have its Incarnation"
@Stephen_GM Yes, and Bradbury's "The Man" and Philip Jose Farmer's Jesus on Mars.
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