Knack of the Anglo-Saxon spirit: Faustian, comfort Deformation of ...: consumerism/materialism Vision of...: imagining gizmos and doodads https://twitter.com/og_nagual/status/833750896341295104 …
idk if 'tism is right model, but anyway; Anglicism is pre-17th c. Scotus + Occam + Bacon + Wycliffe... there was history
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(Or are you trying to imply that Cranmer, Bacon, Dunne, and Shakespeare were somehow un-Anglo? I doubt it tbqh)
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@QuasLacrimas I don't believe More, Elyot, Hooker, Spenser, Shakespeare were 'rationalists' in modern sense evidently Bacon, Hobbes were -
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@QuasLacrimas e.g. for the former, traditional authority, rhetoric, the muses, were all normal considerations in the study of man. -
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@QuasLacrimas the latter were trained in this way but really seem to have set out to undermine or even to openly attack it -
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@QuasLacrimas as for Donne, even here something weird has happened. Shakespeare mixes metaphors, Donne has singular, consistent 'conceits' -
In his plays maybe but WS and Donne are both great at sonnets
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@QuasLacrimas no, i think Shak. mixed his metaphors in plays deliberately to set more images against each other 'in counterpoint' -
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@QuasLacrimas Alastair Fowler pointed out this sonnet as an instance of a prolonged metaphor that is confused when you 'think it through'pic.twitter.com/hGt0Y2Rdox
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