...Bennett A. Brockman Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 “HEROIC” AND “CHRISTIAN” IN GENESIS A THE EVIDENCE OF THE CAIN AND ABEL EPISODE By BENNETTA. BROCKMAN The continuing problem of Christian versus pagan in Old...

... Puzzle, is made uncasy By these solid stattics which so obviously tloub~ His antimythological myth. . . . W. H. Auden, “In Praise of Limcstone” BYRON’S CAIN AND THE ANTIMYTHOLOGICAL MYTH...

...Daniel M. Mcveigh Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 “IN CAINES CYNNE” BYRON AND THE MARK OF CAIN By DANIELM. MCVEIGH I have seen myself compared personally or poetically-in Eng- lish French German (us interpreted...

... act of Cain, Haidbe’s island, The Is- land). The prehistorical earth may have contained superior beings, or there may have been other worlds with such.beings before our own, with its inferior beings, was created. At any rate, past nature was the Ideal by which to measure the present. (2...

.... 356 Irving Putter 357 influence of Byron, whose Biblical “mysteries” Cain and Heaven and Eurth Leconte de Lisle knew and deeply admired. In his work on Leconte de Lisle’s sources, J. Vianey briefly indicated the relationship between the two...

... is insufficiently implied; God desires Adam “me worchipe for to do” (1 12) just as he did the angels, but there is nothing in God’s speech to indicate his reaction toward the angelic rebellion or to show that the creation of man was in any way a response to it.lo Again, the Cain of Chester 11, after seeing...

... because He knows He must endure death to accomplish man’s renewal-Adam the sinner, Moses .the lawgiver, Christ the redeemer. The first vision which illustrates to Adam the effects of his “original crime” is that of Cain’s murder of Abel. The sin of Cain paraIlels the sin of Satan...

... of this study, then, we can agree. The three central chapters deal with The Corsair, Lam, and Parisina (1813-15); The Prisoner of Chillon, Childe Harold, 111, and Manfred (1816-17); and Marino Faliero, Sardanapalus, and Cain (1820-21). Elledge states that his “purpose is not to demonstrate any marked...

..., what further explanation is there? One answer, I believe, lies in a passage from “Religious Mus- ings” and in Coleridge’s interest in 1798 in the theme of Cain-guilt, punishment, expiation, and wandering. In 1794 Coleridge wrote in “Religious Musings”: But that we roam...

... of Byron’s peculiar epis- temology, as displayed, for example, in Cain, written at the same time that Byron was at work on The Vision of Judgment. In Cain II.ii, the play’s namesake and protagonist is directed by Luci- fer to view the existence of the Pre-Adamite giants. Cain finds the sig...

... concerns Cain, the work which even more than Don Juan stamped Byron as a heretic. Declared blasphemous and so beyond the protection of copyright, Cain was immediately pirated. Byron’s reaction shows the encroachment of the laws of the economy on even the most iconoclastic production; the poet...

... 375, was the typological comparison of Cain and the Jews: These two brothers, Cain and Abel, have furnished us with the prototype of the Synagogue and the Church. In Cain we per- ceive the parricidal people of the Jews, who were stained with the blood of their Lord...

... in the Wakefield cycle. Noah is himself one of the malrnarit, Cain’s boy is a maltreated servant and Cain an unjust master, and Pharaoh and Caesar Augustus are formal tyrants. While the Towneley manuscript lacks about a dozen pages between The Creation and the Mnctatio Abel, it seems fair to assume...

... learn qualifies our hopes and diminishes the possibilities for happiness. Cain is at first eager for the knowledge Lu- cifer offers him, since knowledge is the only compensation for the loss of Paradise. But he becomes increasingly despairing as Lucifer’s harsh truths unfold. He does...

... Harold and The Giaour. Most important are the manuscripts of several of the longer works of the Italian years, Sardanapalus, Cain, Don Juan (Canto VIII), and The Island, all of them complete. Interest in the coll3ection is increased by the fact that many of the manuscripts show considerable...

...” (SE, p. 145), “almost paraphrases” Byron’s description of his Cain (p. 65). I assume he is referring to a letter of November 3, 1821, to Murray, stating that the catastrophe in Cuin springs “from mere internul irritation, not premeditation, or envy of Cain . . . but from the rage and fury...

..., Charles. Les Principes de Machiavel et la Politique de la France. New York: editions de la Maison Franqaise, 1943. Pp. 367. Otto, Louis-Guillaume. Considkrations sur la Conduite du Gouvernement AmCri- cain envers la France, depuis le Commencement de la RCvolution jusqu’en 1797. Avec...

... with the whole picture; for example, “Adjectives are replaced by other qualifying phrases fifty-five times. The total number of 110 Reviews variations in which adjectives are concerned reaches the figure of one hundred and eight” (p. 226). Mr. Cain’s “Introduction...

... of “scientific objectivity,” all too often manifest only as the pedantry of his slapdash antiquarianism (to insist that “Qai’n” is truer to the “original spelling’’of Cain’s name is downright comical). Minor flaws, these, and it remains that, as individual studies of the four poets’ doctrine...

... the archetypal patterns of the fall and redemption of man: “Isabella tempts Angelo, though not in the way Eve tempted Adam, and Angelo falls and goes on to the sin of Cain in his order for the execution of Claudio; and then the Duke- Friar steps in and the reign of mercy begins” (p. 26). Certainly...