[syndicate] re: The Recital

[jeff harrison]

Frederic Madre wrote: 
   
  >TV dinner still cooling?
>beautiful ending, jeff
   
   
  On the behalf of Ezra Pound, thanks!
   
  The 14 lines the characters tell are lines from 14 sonnets. The first line in "The Recital" is from the first line of a sonnet, the second line is from the second line of a different sonnet, continuing in this manner to the 14th line, which is from the 14th line of a 14th sonnet. Here are the authors used, and their sonnets, in order of appearance:
   
   
  1. Barnabe Barnes "ah sweet content..." from sonnet 46 of "Parthenophil and Parthenophe"
2. Matthew Arnold "we ask and ask..." from "Shakespeare"
3. Christina Rossetti "loathsome and foul..." from "The World"
4. Sir Thomas Wyatt "do never appear..." from sonnet beginning "Some fouls there be"
5. Sir Walter Raleigh "my lost delights..." from sonnet beginning  "Like truthless dreams"
6. Edgar Allan Poe "how many thoughts..." from "Sonnet - To Zante"
7. John Milton "and at thy growing virtues..." from sonnet 9
8. George Meredith "now the black planet..." from "Lucifer In Starlight"
9. Samuel Daniel "The world shall find..." from sonnet 33 of "Delia" 
10. Robert Southey "restless through Fortune's..." from sonnet beginning "With many a weary step, at length I gain"
11. William Shakespeare "ruin hath taught me..." from Sonnet 64 
12. Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Some prescience..." from Sonnet 20 of "Sonnets from the Portuguese"
13. George Gascoigne "each hour a day..." from Sonnet 2 of "Alexander Nevile delivered him this theame... whereupon hee compiled these seven Sonets in sequence..." (sequence begins with 
"In haste poste haste, when first my wandring minde"
14. Ezra Pound "as white their bark..." from "A Virginal"
   
   
  Each line from a sonnet is offered complete and largely unchanged from how it is found in editions of the author's poems: I modernized the spelling in the lines by Wyatt, Raleigh, Milton, Daniel, and Gascoigne, and I did not retain capitalization of the first word of any of the sonnet lines, nor did I retain end punctuation.
   
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  Appius told Minutius ah sweet content, where is thy mild abode 
Minutius told Calphurnia we ask and ask - thou smilest and art still 
Calphurnia told Corbulo loathsome and foul with hideous leprosy 
Corbulo told Horatio do never appear but in the dark or night 
Horatio told Icilius my lost delights, now clean from sight of land 
Icilius told Numitorius how many thoughts of what entombéd hopes 
Numitorius told Virginia and at thy growing virtues fret their spleen 
Icilius told Virginia now the black planet shadowed Arctic snows 
Horatio told Virginia the world shall find this miracle in me 
Corbulo told Virginia restless through Fortune's mingled scenes I went 
Calphurnia told Virginia ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate 
Minutius told Virginia some prescience of thee with the blossoms white 
Appius told Virginia each hour a day each day a year did seem 
Virginia told Appius as white their bark, so white this lady's hours 


 
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