tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post244052613177346038..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Samuel Daniel's Delia - beyond his power to a farre happier flightAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-45169396794585761172013-11-09T23:52:44.197-06:002013-11-09T23:52:44.197-06:00Brian, that is just what I am saying. Originality...Brian, that is just what I am saying. Originality is a Romantic fetish object.<br /><br />Daniel is definitely a second-rater. But he is in the second tier of the greatest period of English literature. Possibly of all literature. So, honestly, good show, Samuel Daniel!<br /><br />I think the "shipwrack" line is outstanding, too. That whole quatrain, really. Hackneyed in sentiment, not poetry.<br /><br />Cleanthess, I agree that you have picked a plausibly emotional example of Daniel. What I love about the poem is that the woman is an abstraction but poetry is utterly real. He is deeply expressive about his love of poetry.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-83571076022897473522013-11-09T11:44:50.649-06:002013-11-09T11:44:50.649-06:00Though I do not know enough of Samuel Daniel to ha...Though I do not know enough of Samuel Daniel to have an opinion as to whether he is great or not, I do believe that art can be great even if not so original. Sometimes adornment and form can be enough. Brian Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15139559400312336791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-75981900026414525072013-11-09T11:18:35.673-06:002013-11-09T11:18:35.673-06:00It does seem pretty hackneyed, especially "Th...It does seem pretty hackneyed, especially "The shipwrack of my ill-aduentred youth"--but that's the part I like best! I studied Renaissance poetry...I wonder what this says about me. Either my tastes or my misguided choice in grad school pursuits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-67896780502315172013-11-09T08:28:59.432-06:002013-11-09T08:28:59.432-06:00My favorite among Daniel's sonnets, because it...My favorite among Daniel's sonnets, because it feels like, as you so rightly put it, an artistic form for emotion and personal expression:<br /><br />Let others sing of knights and paladins<br />In aged accents, and untimely words;<br />Paint shadows in imaginary lines<br />Which well the reach of their high wits records;<br />But I must sing of thee, and those fair eyes<br />Authenticate shall my verse in time to come,<br />When yet th’ unborn shall say, "Lo where she lies,<br />Whose beauty made him speak that else was dumb."<br />These are the arks, the trophies I erect,<br />That fortify thy name against old age;<br />And these thy sacred virtues must protect<br />Against the dark and time’s consuming rage.<br />Though th’ error of my youth they shall discover,<br />Suffice, they show I lived and was thy lover.Cleanthesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15363416290397892659noreply@blogger.com