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...Paul Acker Copyright © 2000 Regents of the University of Colorado 2000 English Language Notes Volume XXXVIII N um ber 2 Decem ber 2000 THE BIRD AND ANIMAL CAPTIONS IN THE PEPYSIAN SKETCHBOOK Cam bridge, M agdalene College, Pepys Library MS 1916, otherwise known as the Pepysian Sketchbook...

...? In order to arrive there, To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. —T. S. Eliot, “East Coker” Amid the polyphony of Juan Goytisolo’s Las virtudes del pájaro solitario ( The Virtues of the Solitary Bird , 1988), a seemingly...

...Charles Pastoor Copyright © 2005 Regents of the University of Colorado 2005 English Language Notes Volume XLIII Num ber 1 September 2005 THE PURITAN AUDIENCE IN JO N SO N S BARTHOLOMEW FAIR AND SHIRLEY S THE BIRD IN A CAGE In practical terms, one of the greatest problems for the early m...

... the Bold's investiture into the Order o f the Garter, a Latin-English collection of max­ ims known as the Cato, a broadside indulgence, and three short and rather obscure poems by the English author John Lydgate: The Churl and the Bird;The Horse, the Sheep and the Goose; and Stans puer ad mensam. Defined...

... poem . 1 If we h ear these debates resonating in The Owl and the Nightingale, it is natural to want to assign, as many critics have done, antithetical qualities or roles to the two birds. And because the poem ends inconclu­ sively, with the debate unresolved, the read er m ust m ake a choice: to accept...

..., graceful flig ht, m elodious song) and a certain "sense of beauty" in response to those properties. Fie notes, for example, th a t when "w e behold a male bird elaborately displaying his graceful plumes or splendid colours before the female, w h ils t other birds, not thus decorated, make no such display...

... happens. One w ould not choose to blink and go blind A fter the instant. One w ould not choose To see the continuous Platonic pattern o f birds flyin g Long after the stream o f birds had dropped o r had nested. Lucky fo r us th a t there are visible things like oceans W hich are always around, Continuous...

...Noah Eli Gordon Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 A n O ld Poem E mbedded in a F in a l T h o u g h t on the A irplane N o ah E li G o r d o n About five years ago, I w rote a short poem called "Yesterday I Named a Dead Bird Rebecca." The title came to me w hile...

... that was so rich and full” ( Acceptance , 331). Rather than be inhuman or indifferent, Ghost Bird responds with connection and affirmation amid painful, uncanny, and traumatic change: she reaches out and affectionately squeezes Grace’s hand in a gesture of reassurance. They move out into the transformed world...

... to look back, to be back, to bring the fabric into a tight pucker or pocket or foxhole or hem, some little space to fall into a breath like an open grave or little death instead I learn bird names for the shapes and colors and songs around me though every bird is different from every bird. I learn the map...

... h t in on the orchids and cucumbers. -Rebecca Solnlt R ound a nd ro u n d .The stairw ell sprouts. Hibiscus plum es. Fuchsia bells to ll in flo rid heat; lig h t b u rro w s th ro u g h bodies. Fading. Birds-of-Paradise. ii. He watches from a creaking cradle, listening from sips to songs, ca u tio...

..., the elegiac verses gradually trans­ form into a vocabulary list arranged by category (birds and the sounds they make), which the scribe then interrupts with the insertion of his riddle: Accipiter pipat, miluus hiansque lipit; / Cucurrire solet gallus, gallina cacillat. . (The hawk chirps, the kite gaping...

... alm ost invisibly in the ocean, where even the smallest living things, like zooplankton, eventually come to feed on them .18 It m ight be years or decades before the effects of this process are fully known, but the durability of plas­ tics is already apparent in the birds that nest on M idw ay...

... cannot reach, on the land where night and gold, silver and day, intertwine. Those five hundred flowers are my brain, my flesh. . . . The feathers of the condors, of the small birds, have turned into rainbows and shine. . . . The hundred flowers of the quinoa that I sowed on the summits boil in colors...

..., Painting and drawings by ornithologist John James Audubon inspired the organization's founding, w ith his Birds o f Am erica (1827-1839) especially standing for many as "the archetype o l w ildlife illu s tra tio n .*15 From w atercolors and pastels, the Audubon group's media investm ents shifted...

... raine, as well in the m orning as in the euening, ther be high trees that laese n o t their leaues n o r greene coulour in w inter n eith er in Summer. T h ere is songe of m any diners birds and foules: & th eir voice is liking to the hearers, an d d iuersitie o f coulour o f their fethers is pleasant...

... not sure birds or leaves an em pty blue round red tomatoes car speeds of sound red the crackling saw word let the w indo w see the light w elcom ing closer a house go where the w ind insidelet there, fast keep observing outside a wishbone comes out of the noose a house in tim e now let the possum the way...

... of the narrative is distinctive. Let me ground this idea in an example from Gilbert White's The Natural History o f Selborne·. The grasshopper-lark began his sibilous note in my fields last Saturday. Nothing can be more amusing than the whisper of this little bird, which seems to be close by though at an hundred...

... Jessica s dam nation and its causes had antecedents in an ear­ lier scene. The crude Salanio and Salarino had viciously mocked Shylock, whom they liken to the devil, with explicidy ugly details on the flight of his daughter, the bird, a term of endearm ent, a sweetheart, but used negatively...

... s), and McCoy and Higgs (the victim s). Puckeridge s name is indubitably an apt one for a murderer: although its etymology is interestingly uncertain, the noun puck­ eridge is (as explained in a note in the OED, puck ), along with puck and puck-bird, one of the rural names o f the goat­...