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~ BUFFY: How do you get to be renowned? I mean, like, do you have to be 'nowned' first?

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Meditation 17 for the 21st century

29 Sunday Mar 2009

Posted by elrambo in life, movies, poetry, pop culture, students

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A week or so ago, my British Lit. survey class was reading 17th century poet/priest John Donne’s “Meditation 17”—the one with all the famous lines like “Ask not for whom the bell tolls—it tolls for thee” and “No man is an island.” Here’s the 21st-century version (filmed entirely by cell-phone):

Thanks to Darrel Manson for the link.

And speaking of updating great literature of the past, check out Virgil’s Aeneid on Facebook. Some things are timeless; others…not so much.

Meanwhile, in British Literature 1…

01 Thursday Nov 2007

Posted by elrambo in English dept., literature, poetry

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John Donne, literature, poetry

We’ve just been reading (not enough) of John Donne’s poetry, and his famous “Meditation 17” (you know, the “no man is an island” one). Serendipitously, JMNReynolds blogs about connections between John Donne’s poetry and his personal spiritual journey. Read and learn.

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“Nowning?”

BUFFY: How do you get to be renowned? I mean, like, do you have to be ‘nowned’ first? WILLOW: Yes, first there’s the painful ‘nowning’ process. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer 4.1 “The Freshman”)

Or Renowning?

And evermo, eternally,
They songe of Fame, as tho herde I: --
`Heried be thou and thy name,
Goddesse of renoun and of fame!' (Geoffrey Chaucer, The House of Fame 1403-6)

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