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[rymenhild]

Today I've been reading assorted seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature in order to plan a class. This is always entertaining and educational. I shall present, for your entertainment, one of the poems I found in my search. I give you "Nestor", or "Upon the Drinking of a Bowl," by the notorious seventeenth-century drunkard and

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[angevin2]

The great thing is that this is the tamest Rochester poem I've ever read.

[rymenhild]

Why didn't anyone teach Rochester when I was an undergraduate? I am so going to fix that with my students.

[angevin2]

I have some colleagues who've taught Rochester to undergrads. Although I didn't have to read him until grad school (I did encounter him in anthologies before then). I've never done it myself, but then, at my current institution I got in trouble for telling my students that Peter Abelard was castrated and that Thomas Aquinas said that Adam and Eve had prelapsarian sex.

[rymenhild]

Oops. I suppose I should be careful too; the course I'm planning is for a... particularly conservative school. Oh well.

[amelia_petkova]

I of course have posted the non-expurgated version. Bless you!

But Carve theron a spreading vine
Then add Two lovely Boyes;
Their limbs in amorous folds entwine
The Type of Future Joyes.

lol forever

[lnhammer]

I am intrigued by this Sir Sidrophell and the probable etymology of his name ...

---L.