English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Middle Ages, Copernican Revolution
15 Apr 2018
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Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by. This city now doth, like a garment, wear. Open unto the elds, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. In his rst splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne"er saw i, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: And all that mighty heart is lying still! Alexander pope- genius at iambic pentameter couplets. Pg 1246 ln 17- rst #d section. We cant see the direction or harmony or action the world. Voltaire - we live in the best of all possible worlds. Where is the room for individuality, etc- none stay in place of hierarchy. Sonnet does not obey rules of balance and of symmetry. People becoming tired of hierarchy and controls. So they turned back to the middle ages. Imagination is something that links us to god.
