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Article: Donne, The Rainbow, and The Lady of the Camellias.(Critical Essay)
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- January 1, 2001
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Early in The Rainbow, in the chapter entitled "Anna Victrix" is a prose epithalamion for Will and Anna Brangwen:
As they lay close together, complete and beyond the touch of time or
change, it was as if they were at the very center of all the slow wheeling
of space and the rapid agitation of life, deep, deep inside them all, at
the center where there is utter radiance, and eternal being, and the
silence absorbed in praise: the steady core of all movements, the
unawakened sleep of all wakefulness. They found themselves there, and they
lay still, in each other's arms; for their moment they were at the heart of
eternity, whilst time roared far ...