[lbo-talk] Shakespeare, Coke, Bacon, Egerton

Mark Bennett mab at straussandasher.com
Tue Oct 11 17:10:51 PDT 2005


andie nachgeborenen

PS. with regard to John M's comments on Bacon and Coke:

1) Practicing lawyers do tend to be short on poetry. It's the job. Donne may have attended the Inns of Court (the common law law law schools of London) and was secretary or law clerk to Lord Keeper Thomas Egerton (whom John M rightlyt praises as a judge) for a while -- in fact had an affair with, and briefly and secretly married his daughter -- that didn't submit him to the grind of practice that strips the poetry out of lawyers. And it was only for a bit Bacon parcticed law all his adult life until convicted of corruption. Goethe studied a bit of law at Leipzig, as indeed Marx did in Berlin (the young Marx wrote very bad love poetry), but that doesn't make him a lawyer.

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Wallace Stevens? I mean, there has to be one, right?

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