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Art Neuendorffer

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May 4, 2004, 12:14:19 AM5/4/04
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      Souls of Poets dead and gone,
      What Elysium have ye known,
      Happy field or mossy cavern,
      Choicer than the MERMAID Tavern?
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> > "Lynne" <lynnek...@sympatico.ca> wrote
> >
> > > Art, thank you for reprinting this. A very interesting poem. Did you
> > > find Keats' letter to his brother about it, which I believe contains
> > > an earlier version and a bit of an explanation?
 
> "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net> wrote
 
> >            No. If you have it please post it.
 
"Lynne" <lynnek...@sympatico.ca> wrote
 
 
"I wrote the following which has pleased Reynolds
      and Dilke beyond any thing I EVER did."
 
   If only you could please Reynolds as Keats does, Lynne.
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1818 Hazlitt:  "as true to NATURE as itself."
        "what [Shakespeare] says of them is VERy TRUE:
          what he says of their betters is also VERy TRUE."
 
 Lord Byron's daughter, Allegra, and two of Shelley's children
 were all baptised together at a ceremony in St. Giles in 1818.>>
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Mary Shelley's novel _FRANKenstein_ first printed on Jan. 1, 1818
 
         Rare VENUS - JUPITER Occultation on January 3, 1818
        
http://www.go.ednet.ns.ca/~larry/planets/1818occ.htm
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  January 22, 1818, Dr. Caspar Wistar of Philadelphia dies
 
January 24, 1818, Anglican clergyman John Mason Neale, who was one
 of the first to translate ancient Greek and Latin hymns into English, born.
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http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/keats/letter/lewis.htm
 
<<Messrs Keats       Post Office, Teignmouth,  Devon
     7 o'Clock JA 30 1818 NT     Hampstead
 
My dear Brothers,
 
I wrote the following which has pleased Reynolds and Dilke beyond any thing
I EVER did. I was thinking of Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher and the
rest who used to meet at the Mermaid in days of yore and to finish did this.
                       . . . .
      [S]ouls of Poets dead and gone
      [A]re the Winds a sweeter home,
      [R]icher is uncellar'd Cavern
      [T]han the merr[y] mermaid Tavern?
 
    [written vertically in the right margin:]
 
      May the 5£ do and this please you--trust to
 the Spring  and farewell my dear Tom and Geo[rg]e
 
      Your affectionate Brother,   John ---- >>
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       SARTOR RESARTUS (1835) - Thomas Carlyle
 
          The first has now no date, or writer's name,
           but a huge BLOT; and runs to this effect:

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http://search.ebi.eb.com/ebi/article/0,6101,32701,00.html
 
 'SARTOR RESARTUS ', which is considered Carlyle's masterpiece, is one
of the oddest books ever written, supposedly part book review and part
biography. The writer said that he patched it together from another
 book, 'The History of Clothes, Their Origin and Influence', and
from the life of its supposed author, Herr Diogenes Teufelsdröckh.
  The Latin title means "the Tailor patched."
 
 Both the German professor and his book existed only in Carlyle's
imagination. But in the professor's name he poured out his own soul.
Teufelsdröckh's spiritual struggles, loves, and hates were
 Carlyle's own. The book is written in a rhapsodic,
 broken style that has since been called "Carlylese."
 
 Thomas Carlyle, the eldest son of a Scottish peasant family,
 was born in the lowland village of Ecclefechan on Dec. 4, 1795.
 
 When he was still in his 20s he began to suffer from a stomach ailment,
and for the rest of his life he was almost constantly in pain. In 1821
 he met Jane Welsh, whom he married after a five-year courtship.
 
 In 1834 the Carlyles moved to London, where they spent their remaining
years. The following year 'SARTOR RESARTUS ' was published in Boston,
Mass. Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of Carlyle's earliest disciples, had the
book published in America because no British book publisher would accept it.
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                The Tempest  Act 4, Scene 1

CALIBAN   Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to
        Shall HOODWINK this mischance: therefore speak softly.
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http://users.erols.com/volker/Shakes/DatgTmpt.htm.

<<[Kathman states:] Strachey also mentions "HOODWINKed men",
         and Shakespeare's use of the word "HOODWINK" at 4.1.206
      ("HOODWINK this mischance") is one of three in the canon.

  [Volker's reply:] Not true.
                        "HOODWINK" occurs six times in thecanon.>>
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         SARTOR RESARTUS  - Thomas Carlyle
 
<<"If aught in the history of the world's blindness could surprise us,
here might we indeed pause and wonder
. An idea has gone abroad,
and fixed itself down into a wide-spreading rooted error, that Tailors
are a distinct species in Physiology, not Men, but fractional Parts of
 a Man. Call any one a _Schneider_ (Cutter, Tailor), is it not, in
our dislocated, HOODWINKed, and indeed delirious condition of
 Society, equivalent to defying his perpetual fellest enmity? The epithet
_schneidermassig_ (Tailor-like) betokens an otherwise unapproachable
degree of pusillanimity; we introduce a _Tailor's-Melancholy_, more
opprobrious than any Leprosy, into our Books of Medicine; and fable I
know not what of his generating it by living on CABBAGE. Why should I
speak of Hans Sachs (himself a Shoemaker, or kind of Leather-Tailor),
with his _Schneider mit dem Panier_?
 
 Why of Shakspeare, in his _Taming of the Shrew_, and elsewhere?
 
 Does it not stand on record that the English Queen Elizabeth,
 receiving a deputation of Eighteen Tailors, addressed them
 with a 'Good morning, gentlemen both!' Did not the same virago
 boast that she had a Cavalry Regiment, whereof neither horse nor
man could be injured; her Regiment, namely, of Tailors on Mares?
 
 Thus everywhere is the falsehood taken for granted,
      and acted on as an indisputable fact.>>
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FEEBLE:  I WILL do my good WILL, sir; you can have no more.

FALSTAFF:  Well said, good woman's Tailor! well said,
          courageous FEEBLE! thou wilt be as valiant as the
     wrathful dove or most magnanimous mouse. Prick the
  woman's Tailor: well, Master Shallow; DEEP, Master Shallow.
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            t{O}.th[E].on[L]ie.[B]eg[E]tt[E]r.o[F].

               [F]er[E]tt[E]ge[B]ei[L]on[E]ht{O}t

               [F]ee[B]le{O}
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Art Neuendorffer

Lynne

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May 4, 2004, 9:13:24 AM5/4/04
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"Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<1tadnYGk8eE...@comcast.com>...

> --------------------------------------------------
> Souls of Poets dead and gone,
> What Elysium have ye known,
> Happy field or mossy cavern,
> Choicer than the MERMAID Tavern?
> --------------------------------------------------
> > > "Lynne" <lynnek...@sympatico.ca> wrote
> > >
> > > > Art, thank you for reprinting this. A very interesting poem. Did
> you
> > > > find Keats' letter to his brother about it, which I believe
> contains
> > > > an earlier version and a bit of an explanation?
>
> > "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net> wrote
>
> > > No. If you have it please post it.
>
> "Lynne" <lynnek...@sympatico.ca> wrote
>
> > Try this: http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/keats/letter/lewis.htm
>
> "I wrote the following which has pleased Reynolds
> and Dilke beyond any thing I EVER did."
>
> If only you could please Reynolds as Keats does, Lynne.
> Art Neuendorffer
>

If only I could write poetry as Keats did, Art.
The Mouse

Art Neuendorffer

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May 4, 2004, 6:43:03 PM5/4/04
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> "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net> wrote

> > "I wrote the following which has pleased Reynolds
> >       and Dilke beyond any thing I EVER did."
> >
> >    If only you could please Reynolds as Keats does, Lynne.

"Lynne" <lynnek...@sympatico.ca> wrote

> If only I could write poetry as Keats did, Art.
    And die at age 25 with this cheerfull epitaph?
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____              This Grave
           contains all that was Mortal
_____                 of a
                Young English Poet
               Who on his Death Bed
             in the Bitterness of his Heart
         at the Malicious Power of his Enemies
_________           Desired
      these words to be engraved on his Tomb Stone
     "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."
______               John Keats
               (Protestant Cemetery; Rome, Italy)
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  "Here lies   ONE   .W.H .oS.E Name was writ in WATER."
 
    "All for ONE/ONE for All" :  E.So. H.W.'s motto
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____       O.E. NONE
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       http://hsa.brown.edu/~maicar/Paris.html
 
<<While he was tending his cattle on Mount Ida, PARIS fell in
 love with the Nymph OENONE, daughter of the river god Cebren.
OENONE was taught the art of prophecy by Apollo. PARIS took OENONE
to Mount Ida, where he had his home, and promised her that he would
 never desert her. But OENONE, said that one day he would fall
in love with an European woman, whom he would bring back with him,
and with her all the horrors of war. And to this disappointing
picture she added that he was to be wounded in that war, and that
nobody would be able to cure his wound, except herself, who was
well acquainted with the Phrygian forests and its healing herbs.
 
This Nymph, who loved PARIS when he still was a poor SHEPHERD
(for at the time it was not known that he was a Trojan prince)
  never accepted, though she foretold it, that this young
 man, who had gone around writing "OENONE" with his blade
 in the trunks of the trees, could endure to desert her.>>
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      The Triple Tau is one of the most important
            symbols of Royal Arch Masonry
 
It has been said that three Taus come together to form the Triple Tau.
 
---_____                    * * *
-----_____                    *
___                     *-__  *  __ *
___                     * * * * * * *
___                     *   _____   *
 
       Others say the Triple Tau is originally
     the coming together of a T & H meaning
 
               [T]emplum [H]ierosolyma,
            or the Temple of Jerusalem.
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     <<In 1594 one "T.H.,"  identified by Folger editor
   Joseph Quincy Adams as the young Thomas Heywood,
   published "the earliest known imitation of Shakespeare,"
    in the narrative satiric poem, OENONE & PARIS.>>
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<<"During the moment I was silent, Miss Eyre, I was arranging
a POINT with my DESTINY. She stood there, by that BEECH-trunk--a
hag like one of those who appeared to MACBETH on the heath of Forres.
 
'You like THORNfield?' she said, lifting her finger; and then she
wrote in the air a memento, which ran in lurid *HIEROGLYPHICS* >>
 
                 --   _Jane Eyre_ - Charlotte Bronte
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               Ovid, Heroides V
 
The BEECH-TREES still hold my name with your carving,
        And I read "OENONE," written by your blade.
And as much as those trunks grow, so much my name increases.
        RISE UP, and grow straight with my glory!
 
 Poplar, live, I pray, planted by the river bank
     With, in your furrowed bark, this verse:
 
"If PARIS can still draw breath when he has abandoned OENONE,
Then the WATERs of the Xanthus shall FLOW back toward their source."
Xanthus, make haste backward, and FLOWing WATERs return!
PARIS endures his desertion of OENONE!
 
But when the blast of the devouring fire
Had made twain one, OENONE and PARIS, now
One little heap of ashes, then with wine
QUENCHED they the embers, and they laid their bones
In a wide golden vase, and round them piled
The EARTH-MOUND; and they set TWO PILLARS there
That each from other EVER turn away;
For the old jealousy in the marble lives.
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            "Her- E lieS onE .W.H .oS.E""
 
        ____       ElieSonE
 
        ____     Eli(a)s-sonE
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        Leviathon by Thomas Hobbes ** ( CHAPTER XXXVIII )
 
<<That the soul of man is in its own nature eternal, and a living
creature independent on the body; or that any mere man is immortal,
   otherwise than by the resurrection in the last day,
 
              except Enos & Elias,
 
is a doctrine not apparent in Scripture...Afterwards the Apostles
 being returned to him, he asketh them all, not Peter only, who
men said he was; and they answered that some said he was John the
Baptist, some ELIAS, and others Jeremias, or one of the Prophets.>>
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       ENOS => son of Seth (Hebrew for mortal man)
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<<concerning the genesis of Harold or Humphrey Chimpden's
    occupational agnomen (we are back in the presurnames
prodromarith period, of course just when ENOS chalked halltraps)
and discarding once for all those theories from older sources>>
 
<<Bethicket me for a stump of a BEECH if I have the poultriest
notion what the farest he all means.>> - Finnegans Wake, p. 112
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Art Neuendorffer

Lynne

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May 5, 2004, 4:50:59 PM5/5/04
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"Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<6p6dnZLBlqH...@comcast.com>...

> > > "Lynne" <lynnek...@sympatico.ca> wrote
> > >
> > > > Try this: http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/keats/letter/lewis.htm
>
> > "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net> wrote
>
> > > "I wrote the following which has pleased Reynolds
> > > and Dilke beyond any thing I EVER did."
> > >
> > > If only you could please Reynolds as Keats does, Lynne.
>
> "Lynne" <lynnek...@sympatico.ca> wrote
>
> > If only I could write poetry as Keats did, Art.
>
> And die at age 25 with this cheerfull epitaph?
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> This Grave
> contains all that was Mortal
> of a
> Young English Poet
> Who on his Death Bed
> in the Bitterness of his Heart
> at the Malicious Power of his Enemies
> Desired
> these words to be engraved on his Tomb Stone
> "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."
> John Keats
> (Protestant Cemetery; Rome, Italy)

It's too late for me to die at twenty five, Art. Nor am I likely to be
buried in a Protestant cemetery. A pet

Love,
Cheer-full Magnani-mouse

Lynne

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May 5, 2004, 4:54:53 PM5/5/04
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"Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<6p6dnZLBlqH...@comcast.com>...

> > > "Lynne" <lynnek...@sympatico.ca> wrote
> > >
> > > > Try this: http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/keats/letter/lewis.htm
>
> > "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net> wrote
>
> > > "I wrote the following which has pleased Reynolds
> > > and Dilke beyond any thing I EVER did."
> > >
> > > If only you could please Reynolds as Keats does, Lynne.
>
> "Lynne" <lynnek...@sympatico.ca> wrote
>
> > If only I could write poetry as Keats did, Art.
>
> And die at age 25 with this cheerfull epitaph?

And here's the rest of this message:

It's too late for me to die at twenty five, Art. Nor am I likely to be

buried in a Protestant cemetery. A Pet Sematary perhaps.

Sorry, Dog put her paw on my laptop and sent email. It's the second
time she's done this. VERy apt.

Mouse

Art Neuendorffer

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May 5, 2004, 5:39:22 PM5/5/04
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> > > > "Lynne" <lynnek...@sympatico.ca> wrote
> > > >
> > > > > Try this: http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/keats/letter/lewis.htm
> >
> > > "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net> wrote
> >
> > > > "I wrote the following which has pleased Reynolds
> > > > and Dilke beyond any thing I EVER did."
> > > >
> > > > If only you could please Reynolds as Keats does, Lynne.
> >
> > "Lynne" <lynnek...@sympatico.ca> wrote
> >
> > > If only I could write poetry as Keats did, Art.

> "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net> wrote

> > And die at age 25 with this cheerfull epitaph?

"Lynne" <lynnek...@sympatico.ca> wrote

> And here's the rest of this message:
>
> It's too late for me to die at twenty five, Art. Nor am I likely to be
> buried in a Protestant cemetery. A Pet Sematary perhaps.

Sematary / Semitary?

Sematic, a. The warning colors or forms of certain animals.
Semitic, a. Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants.

> Sorry, Dog put her paw on my laptop and sent email.
> It's the second time she's done this. VERy apt.

Lap dog feels sibling rivalry to the lap top you are "petting."

(I get a similar sort of jealousy from Pepper.)

Art N.


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