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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?
>
> No. If
you have it please post it.
"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
<<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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