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I knew nothing of Lowell. I knew nothing of poetry, other than the sub rosa collection of obscene limericks then doing the classroom rounds, thanks largely to myself. I knew nothing of Jonathan Edwards, the poem's putative subject. I listened to the first lines of "Mr. Edwards and the Spider." At first I felt little interest. Then, gradually, it was as if a neutron bomb had gone off inside my head. http://www.takimag.com/593/