ALL virtuous, voluptuous characters/names -- love the piece, and the commentary!
tl On Monday, April 02, 2007, at 03:35PM, "Harrison Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>is this a lost text of Virgil, or a synopsis of an episode of HBO's "Rome"? > > >Thanks, Tom! The first three lines and last three lines of "The Vying" are >by me, original to this poem. > >The words spoken by Horatio in line 4 of "The Vying" is an excerpt from a >sentence in the eleventh paragraph of Chapter Two of Stephen Crane's "The >Red Badge of Courage" > >From line five to line eighteen, the spoken lines are from sonnets. The >first line in this sonnet in "The Vying" is from the fourteenth line of a >sonnet, the second line is from the thirteenth line of a different sonnet, >continuing in this manner to the last line of the "The Vying" sonnet, which >is from the first line of a 14th sonnet. Here are the authors used, and >their sonnets, in order of appearance: > >1. Barnabe Barnes "be where thou wilt..." from sonnet 46 of "Parthenophil >and Parthenophe" >2. William Wordsworth "but, Cynthia!..." from "With how sad steps, O Moon, >thou climb'st the sky" >3. Anna Seward "sleep, then, my lyre..." from sonnet beginning "Lyre of the >sonnet" >4. Joshua Sylvester "and look upon you..." from sonnet beginning "Were I as >base as the lowly plain" >5. John Milton "thy handmaids..." from sonnet beginning "When Faith and >Love, which parted from thee never", often titled "On the Religious Memory >of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, deceased Dec. 16, 1646" >6. Edna St. Vincent Millay "thus in the wind..." from sonnet beginning "What >lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" >7. Percy Bysshe Shelley "on some frail bark..." from "To Wordsworth" >8. Yvor Winters "she fled all ways..." from "Apollo and Daphne" >9. Edmund Spenser "who first my Muse..." from "To the right honourable and >most vertuous Lady, the Countesse of Penbroke" >10. John Barlas "fierce night-shade..." from "Beauty's Anadems" >11. Robert Lowell "old Cynthia" from "The Injured Moon", an imitation of >Baudelaire's "La Lune offens?e". >12. William Wordsworth "where art thou..." from "With how sad steps, O Moon, >thou climb'st the sky" >13. Matthew Arnold "that thou canst hear..." from "Written in Emerson's >Essays" >14. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "alas so all things..." from sonnet >beginning "Alas so all thinges nowe doe holde their peace" > > >"The Vying" is similar to an earlier poem of mine titled "The Recital". More >information on "The Recital" may be found in Antic View #115 >http://anticview.blogspot.com/ > >_________________________________________________________________ >i'm making a difference.?Make every IM count for the cause of your choice. >Join Now. >http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0080000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=hmtagline > >
