...William A. Oram Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 ARNOLD’S “SCHOLAR-GIPSY” AND THE CRISIS OF THE 1852 POEMS By WILLIAMA. ORAM The debate about the meaning of “The Scholar-Gipsy...

... present in and constitutive of the language of poetry” (p. 54). Analyzing such neglected poems as “Gipsies,” “Alice Fell,” and The Excur- sion, along with more familiar texts, Simpson unravels the often unsuc- cessful dialectic between public and private in Wordsworth’s attempt to address...

.... If Matthew Arnold had turned his attention to pastoral as a critic, the result might have been something like these lectures, which, in defining “The Proper Place of Nostalgia,” end appropriately with “Thyrsis” and “The Scholar-Gipsy.” As Erwin Panofsky has pointed out, so dominant is nostal- gia...

... it. Such ambiguity or, rather, such two-edged references were mother’s milk to Arnold, as is well known to readers of Culture and Anarchy-or of such poems as “The Scholar-Gipsy.” When the Achilles reference is seen as a salvo fired, only partly in jest, at the unhappy Newman, we can better...

... present in and constitutive of the language of poetry” (p. 54). Analyzing such neglected poems as “Gipsies,” “Alice Fell,” and The Excur- sion, along with more familiar texts, Simpson unravels the often unsuc- cessful dialectic between public and private in Wordsworth’s attempt to address...

...). The sixth night’s sport, “of Gipsies,” is presented by the Duchess’ servants, “all properly habited with their Faces umbered over.” Danc- ing into the room where the ladies are assembled, they then read their palms in such a way as to “give such Fortunes as they imagined best pleasing...

...,” Browning’s “Childe Roland “The Scholar Gipsy,” and Yeats’s Byzantium poems. The first third of the book, written by Sommer, covers the classical epics and includes short sketches on works from The Divine Comedy through the eighteenth century. The remainder, which is Roppen’s contribution, consists...

... for an index to these notes. Everyo’ne will be inclined to add further parallels to those Allott has given; I shall restrain myself, except for calling attention to Browning’s reply to Arnold’s diagnosis of the ills of his age in “The Scholar-Gipsy” (line 143): Rise...

... on in ‘Resignation,’ ‘The Sick King in Bokhara,’ ‘The Buried Life,’ ‘The Scholar-Gipsy,’ arid ‘Starims from the Grand [sic] Chartreuse’ (p. 117, 53). It was at points such as these that Kusso ” 11. almost prompted this reader to burst out into Carlylese by exclainiitig, “Close thy...

... a ram takes the place of the elephant.s3 In a Gipsy story, finally, the animal which the snake is unable to gulp down is a stag, and the youth strikes off its horns. Here again he is duly rewarded by the grateful serpent.34 It is not to be supposed that the middle ages did not seriously...

...- brow culture,” so that poems such as “Gipsies” are to be recognized as experiments in diction and propri- ety rather than, as Coleridge had it, mere errors of judgment Word- sworth’s ambivalence about circumstances that he could neither endorse nor change conditions his style and assures his...

...- brow culture,” so that poems such as “Gipsies” are to be recognized as experiments in diction and propri- ety rather than, as Coleridge had it, mere errors of judgment Word- sworth’s ambivalence about circumstances that he could neither endorse nor change conditions his style and assures his...

... in France) Wordsworth might be a less “natural” writer than we suppose, and more committed to “breach- ing the boundaries between high- and middle- brow culture,” so that poems such as “Gipsies” are to be recognized as experiments in diction and propri- ety rather than, as Coleridge had it, mere...

... in France) Wordsworth might be a less “natural” writer than we suppose, and more committed to “breach- ing the boundaries between high- and middle- brow culture,” so that poems such as “Gipsies” are to be recognized as experiments in diction and propri- ety rather than, as Coleridge had it, mere...

...- brow culture,” so that poems such as “Gipsies” are to be recognized as experiments in diction and propri- ety rather than, as Coleridge had it, mere errors of judgment Word- sworth’s ambivalence about circumstances that he could neither endorse nor change conditions his style and assures his...

...- brow culture,” so that poems such as “Gipsies” are to be recognized as experiments in diction and propri- ety rather than, as Coleridge had it, mere errors of judgment Word- sworth’s ambivalence about circumstances that he could neither endorse nor change conditions his style and assures his...

...- brow culture,” so that poems such as “Gipsies” are to be recognized as experiments in diction and propri- ety rather than, as Coleridge had it, mere errors of judgment Word- sworth’s ambivalence about circumstances that he could neither endorse nor change conditions his style and assures his...

... in France) Wordsworth might be a less “natural” writer than we suppose, and more committed to “breach- ing the boundaries between high- and middle- brow culture,” so that poems such as “Gipsies” are to be recognized as experiments in diction and propri- ety rather than, as Coleridge had it, mere...

... from the Rector, drew Mary Arnold aside into the drawing room and talked about Spanish literature and the trip she had made to Spain just before writing her Spanish Gipsy. When they rejoined the others, who had gone on through the gallery and into the study to smoke and talk, they found...