The Sunne Rising by John Donne, chosen and read by David Powley because way back in the mid 1960s it was
for him such an exciting discovery : the combination of caressive
intimacy with the poet’s delight in playing intellectual games as he
builds up his argument against the sun.
The sentiment is so relaxed and everyday (for lovers, anyway) yet
contained and conveyed in a poem so tightly controlled in its rhythms,
phrasing, shape, sound and argument.
John Donne, born in 1572 but still
very much alive.
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