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The Prelude (1850) [ Concepts ]
… it, solitary hill! to thee, Though but a little family of men, Shepherds and tillers of the ground—betimes Assembled with their children and their wives, And here and there a stranger interspersed. They hold a rustic fair—a festival, Such … none; a stall or two is here; A lame man or a blind, the one to beg, The other to make music; hither, too, From far, with basket, slung upon her arm, Of hawker's wares—books, pictures, combs, and pins— Some aged woman finds her way again, … valley, looking out For gains, and who that sees her would not buy? Fruits of her father's orchard, are her wares, And with the ruddy produce, she walks round Among the crowd, half pleased with half ashamed Of her new office, blushing …
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The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated (1733) [ Concepts ]
… in awe, I come to Council learned in the Law. You'll give me, like a friend both sage and free, Advice; and (as you use) without a Fee. [10] F. I'd write no more. P. Not write? but then I think, And for my soul I cannot sleep a wink. … seem tedious -- take a wife: Or rather truly, if your point be rest, Lettuce and cowslip wine: Probatum est. But talk with Celsus, Celsus will advise [20] Hartshorn, or something that shall close your eyes. Or, if you needs must write, … Caesar's praise: You'll gain at least a Knighthood, or the Bays. P. What? like Sir Richard, rumbling, rough, and fierce, With Arms, and George, and Brunswick, crowd the verse, [25] Rend with tremendous sound your ears asunder, With Gun, drum, …
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Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… a rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter which, while predating Pope as a poetic device, came to be closely associated with him and with this moment in British literary history. The formal symmetry and self-containment of Pope’s couplets belie his awkward social position. In addition to the disadvantages of his Catholicism, he also lived with severe disability from the age of twelve onwards, his growth stunted and his back hunched following a bout of what …
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Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
… following the script of the lone Romantic genius, Percy Shelley (1792-1822) purposely cultivated numerous friendships with the most talented writers of his time. In his preface to Prometheus Unbound , Shelley even endeavoured to theorize … in Pisa, Shelley also formed intense and durable friendships, the most famous being his creative but strained connection with Lord Byron. More recently, new scholarship has illuminated his collaborative and reciprocal literary relationship with Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, his second wife. People > Art and Literature Keywords Friendship Italy Poetry …
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John Keats [ Art and Literature ]
… of creative activity in 1819, before his death at the unripe age of 25 – in that it entwines the literary and the social with empathetic alertness. It also highlights the extent to which Keats, far from the ethereal misfit his Victorian … Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats , which brought together 66 poems and some 80 letters by the poet, along with a brief biography, was a crucial step in debunking the false image of Keats as a sickly, over-sensitive youth, whose … ed. Hyder E. Rollins, 2 vols. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958), I, p. 169 (hereafter cited in text with reference to volume and page number). Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), co-founder of The Examiner, a radical weekly …
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John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… Debate at Coachmaker’s Hall. He credited the attempts to close down debating societies as his primary motivation for switching political allegiances and embracing the reform movement, suggesting the importance of physical gathering to his … attraction, ‘like the correspondent particles of matter, [that] have a tendency to adhere whenever they are brought within the sphere of mutual attraction’. 4 This commitment to the social and political potential of materialism saw him … he published his genre-bending The Peripatetic , a compendium of verse and prose that united sentimental fiction, with gothic elements, underpinned by his idiosyncratic materialism. 3 . Thelwall’s interest in materialism has been most …
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