Author: Aubrey De VerePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The Search After Proserpine, and Other Poems, Classical and Meditative
Author: Aubrey De VereThe Search After Proserpine, and Other Poems, Classical and Meditative
Author: Aubrey De VereThe Search After Proserpine and Other Poems
Author: Aubrey De VerePublisher:
ISBN: 9781331148340
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Excerpt from The Search After Proserpine and Other Poems: Classical and Meditative Of all the beautiful fictions of Greek Mythology, there are few more exquisite than the story of Proserpine, and none deeper in symbolical meaning. Considering the fable with reference to the physical world, Bacon says, in his 'Wisdom of the Ancients, ' that by the Rape of Proserpine is signified the disappearance of flowers at the end of the year, when the vital juices are, as it were, drawn down to the central darkness, and held there in bondage. Following up this view of the subject, the Search of her Mother, sad and unavailing as it was, would seem no fit emblem of Autumn and the restless melancholy of the season; while the hope with which the Goddess was finally cheered may perhaps remind us of that unexpected return of fine weather which occurs so frequently, like an omen of Spring, just before Winter closes in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The search after Proserpine, and other poems, classical and meditative
Author: Aubrey De VereThe Poetical Works of Aubrey de Vere: The search after Proserpine, and other poems, classical and meditative. New ed
Author: Aubrey De VereThe Poetical Works of Aubrey de Vere: The search after Proserpine, and other poems, classical and meditative. New ed
Author: Aubrey De VereThe search after Proserpine, Recollections of Greece, and other poems
Author: Aubrey De Vere (calling himself earl of Oxford.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Alexander the Great, Saint Thomas of Canterbury, and other poems
Author: Aubrey De VereThe Return of King Arthur
Author: Beverly TaylorPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0859911365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The revival of interest in Arthurian legend in the 19th century was a remarkable phenomenon, apparently at odds with the spirit of the age. Tennyson was widely criticised for his choice of a medieval topic; yet The Idylls of the Kingwere accepted as the national epic, and a flood of lesser works was inspired by them, on both sides of the Atlantic. Elisabeth Brewer and Beverly Taylor survey the course of Arthurian literature from 1800 to the present day, and give an account of all the major English and American contributions. Some of the works are well-known, but there are also a host of names which will be new to most readers, and some surprises, such as J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur, rightly ignored as a text, but a piece oftheatrical history, for Sir Henry Irving played King Arthur, Ellen Terry was Guinevere, Arthur Sullivan wrote the music, and Burne-Jones designed the sets. The Arthurian works of the Pre-Raphaelites are discussed at length, as are the poemsof Edward Arlington Robinson, John Masefield and Charles Williams. Other writers have used the legends as part of a wider cultural consciousness: The Waste Land, David Jones's In Parenthesis and The Anathemata, and the echoes ofTristan and Iseult in Finnigan's Wake are discussed in this context. Novels on Arthurian themes are given their due place, from the satirical scenes of Thomas Love Peacock's The Misfortunes of Elphin and Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court to T.H. White's serio-comic The Once and Future King and the many recent novelists who have turned away from the chivalric Arthur to depict him as a Dark Age ruler. The Return of King Arthurincludes a bibliography of British and American creative writing relating to the Arthurian legends from 1800 to the present day.
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