Thursday, January 1, 2004

The Shadow Of Night Comments

Rating: 2.7

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Fall, Hercules, from heaven, in tempests hurl'd,
And cleanse this beastly stable of the world;
Or bend thy brazen bow against the Sun,
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George Chapman
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Yves Troendle 24 June 2018

Mark Carter is right, of course: the reading is only of a short excerpt. Worse, it's emotionally dead... grey on grey, pointless. The poem is famously difficult, and skating across its surface, aloof, doesn't do a thing to encourage engagement.

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Mark Carter 02 December 2009

This is obviously not the entire poem. The entire poem is roughly 10 pages long in the 1875 edition of The Works of George Chapman published by Chatto & Windus (and which can be found at the Internet Archive) .

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