All the metaphysicals repay study. I'm grateful to know more about Traherne, who is sometimes skipped over in the 17th-century surveys. And I'd like to know a lot more about prosimetra, which I know only from the work of two contemporaries, way too small a sample.
But I'm having to push myself to read through this analysis. It's an accurate and complete close read as far as I can see. It holds us by the hand and marches us through the poem's ideas, devices, and turns. But I'm not finding it interesting writing in itself. A sense of the writer's delight--that's what I'd like to see more of.
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