I happen to have just started to read Dr Zhivago and also read about Pasternak's tragic life. You are right - the poems I learnt in childhood and youth have sung in my head all my life - Shakespeare, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson. The last two lines of Sonnet 30 - how fortunate anyone is who has someone about whom they can feel that.
I happen to have just started to read Dr Zhivago and also read about Pasternak's tragic life. You are right - the poems I learnt in childhood and youth have sung in my head all my life - Shakespeare, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson. The last two lines of Sonnet 30 - how fortunate anyone is who has someone about whom they can feel that.
I happen to have just started to read Dr Zhivago and also read about Pasternak's tragic life. You are right - the poems I learnt in childhood and youth have sung in my head all my life - Shakespeare, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson. The last two lines of Sonnet 30 - how fortunate anyone is who has someone about whom they can feel that.