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    <updated_at>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:12:02 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Great review. The man can't write.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:03:45 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:03:09 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Halfway through. The pages turn themselves almost. One of those thickly atmospheric filmic novels saturated with recently olden days and a miasmic hint of sinister worlds outside the apparent (this one, mercifully, not, so far at least, involving kitsch mysticism, metaphysics, quantum mechanics, or ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78207505">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/236777.The_Metaphysical_Poets">The Metaphysical Poets (Penguin Classics)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/351812.Helen_Louise_Gardner">Helen Louise Gardner</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:20:08 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:19:52 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The first three chapters provide a useful overview of the 'metaphysical poets', chapter 3 focusing on Donne. Then follows a consideration of each of the poets with each chapter, after a short introduction, commenting on specific poems. The author's style is concise and witty, a bit too so for me at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80153742">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:22:02 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:36:29 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Agree with the sentiments of your review. However, while agreeing that the wider backgrounds and contexts are interwoven, I'm not so sure that these are 'sociological, and would think it's less a CCCS model than an example of fine journalistic writing.]]></body>
        
    
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