Class Notes January 20, 2011

• Wallace Stevens
• Postcard from the Volcanos
• Shakespeare's effect
• "what we said of it became a part of what it is"
• continuation without knowledge of foreknowledge
• Bloom's book: helps us understand
• Love's Labor Lost
• page 233 lin 250-252
• School of Night referenced
• Everyone is to try writing a sonnet
• 14 line Shakespearean version
• within the next 10-14 days
• Use Spencer's Blog as an example
• http://spencerstilwell473.blogspot.com/2011/01/prexperience.html
• Rapsody
• Every word has visionary intensity
• Love's Labor Lost
• line 29.1-338 might be motto of school of night
• true academic is reading love in a woman's eyes not reading textbooks/books
• Idea of the boar
• Venus & Adonis
• Rape of Lucere
• the two plays balance Shakespeare
• Giordan Buno
• memory techniques
• possible member of School of Night
• hermetic philosophy
• divine love referred above all
• Check out Shelby's blog
• http://shelbysouleshakespeare.blogspot.com/2011/01/weights-and-levers.html
• Check out Roberto's blog
• http://cattaneostudiesshakespeare.blogspot.com/
• both show the power of the mind
• reference School of Night and the scales
• Manly Hall
• secret societies
• Frances Yates
• Art of Memory
• Mystical work of Hymeticism
• Bruno's Speech in Love Labor's Lost is almost identical
• Anthony Keatis
• Matt's Blog
• Scar Tissue
• Mishima
• http://shakespearebloglit47.blogspot.com/
• Ted Hughes
• Court Lord of England
• wrote Shakespeare & the Goddess
• "Poets tend to be obsessed with the consuming myth"
• Consuming Myth
• Fiathon
• Sylvia Plath
• Peter Broto: Fall of Icarus
• St. Sebastian
• T.S. Elliot's consuming myth
• Shakespeare
• Venus & Adonis
• Michelangelo
• Piate
• What is everyone's scared text with canonical authority?
• Borges
• Everything & Nothing
• http://www.friendsofcoleridge.com/borges.htm
• Everyone NEEDS to read!
• Genius of Shakespeare
• Jame's Blog
• http://killingtheplayfullking.blogspot.com/
• John Keats
• Negative Capability
• empty out personality to become a great artist
• Passages discussed in class
• Macbeth
• Act 1 Scene 7 Line 21
• "Pity like a naked newborn babe"