... one crossed-out word (in on page 6, which I have put in italics in brackets), unusual for Whitman, who made numerous corrections and changes in both poetry and prose as he wrote. The complete text follows. [I1 Hermit Thrush Solitary Thrush...

... of what is offered. Wordsworth was no hermit but an affectionate family man, who was keenly interested in the affairs of his coun- try, one who condemned “the heart that lives alone at a distance from the Kind,” and who made the Solitary not the hero of The Excursion, but an ex- ample...

... of charity and pronvess were, for ChrCtien, “inimical and that charity must ultimately prevail” (p. 3). Sccontlarily, Fmvlcr makes much of the point that family relationships in the story, notaldy as spelled out hy thc hermit in the Good Friday episode, are “not intended to he realistic” ip. 5...

..., the poem is a celebration of natural life; but toward the end, particularly in the sections referring to the Hermit, the images are much more explicitly drawn from nature itself. Except for one earlier line comparing moonlight to April hoar- frost, this passage is the first to make use...

..., in short, is a place like the Hermit’s “Chap- pell” (6.5.35), the protective secrecy of which he had left only shortly before his encounter with Disdaine.18 And although the chapel is suspiciously reminiscent of Archimago’s evil hermitage in Book 1, the similarity...

... out of the story. No visit to Trebuchet is recorded. (9) There must be something wrong about Perceval’s guessing his own name. (10) Critics have blamed the casual way in which Perceval’s visit with the hermit is inserted into the Gawain episode (11) As a whole, the Grail episode...

... narrative, the poem is an appropriate object lesson in author-­function technique. At the end of his story, when the Mariner has reached his homeland, he turns to the Hermit and asks to be “shrived.” The Hermit responds, “What manner of man art thou?” This question has been variously interpreted...

... adventures in Italy, England, and Persia, Zelauto is shipwrecked upon the Sicilian coast where, in the conventional manner of pastoral romance, he is befriended by a hermit. The hermit, Astraepho, entertains his unex- pected guest with food, lodging, and finally the narration of a “dainty device...

... as a hermit, Father Raphael, near a Actually, Father Raphael is Alvaro’s alias, not Leo- nora’s. Another compiler of plots says of Leonora : “She . . . tells her story to the Abbot who shows her a hidden cave in the nioutitains. There she may live as a hermit, clad in the robe...

... in the novel, such as the figure of Zulima (a Graf von Gleichen-theme) or of the “Einsied- ler,” to make an ironclad case for India (pp. 162 f. and 237). Particularly the hermit, who, after all, is Friedrich von Hohenzollern, appears to owe much to Palestine and the Crusades. But these are largely...

....) The lovers are attacked hy a The lovers are attacked by a “band of robbers” and sold sepa- band of the sultan’s sailors, rately into slavery. Cythna taken into slavery, Laon imprisoned. (111. vi ff.) Darassah escapes and by chance Laon is rescued by a hermit...

... philosophical hermit, knight errant, rapturous lady, voluptuous siren. It is, further, the deep sympathy of the artist with the spirit of man, a point which Beyer makes clear without despising the pedantry on which such an interpretation necessarily rests. Having established Keats’s early...

... in the poem, he explicates the hermit’s description of the king who is served with the grail (Perceval, 6420 ff.) : Mais ne quidiez pas que il ait Lus ne lamproie ne salmon ; Dune sole oiste le sert on, Que l’en cel...

... of the poem is brought to its climax along with the narrative. As the Hermit approaches the ship and realizes that something is wrong, we get two echoing distortions. ‘Strange, by my faith!’ the Hermit said- ‘And they answered not our cheer ! The planks...

... the results of his own investigations, Gunkel shows in Chapter I, “Biichners Verhaltnis zu den Zeitgenossen” (pp. 12-35), that as a voracious reader Buchner was not, as we have been led to believe, a hermitic figure far removed from the literary and social currents of ideas of his day...

... that family relationships in the story, notaldy as spelled out hy thc hermit in the Good Friday episode, are “not intended to he realistic” ip. 5). Thirdly, he agrees ith Loomis that a vengeance-quest thenie h:.hincl the story “hat1 an importarit influence on the poet, even tliough hc supprcssd...

... of the soil so industriously spaded up by Thierry Maulnier : that fertile half-century of ThCopliile de Viau, Gombauld, Saint-Amant, Du Bois Hus, and Tristan 1’Hermite. Even the briefest search through these pages is rewarding. Like other lyricists of his generation, Thkophife sought out...

... Fiacre beyond the fact that he came from Ireland to settle as a hermit at Breuil (now Saint- Fiacre) near Meaux during the time of Burgundofaro, dying there about 670.' Legend has supplied the additional details found in the works analyzed below am1 in the Bollandists...

... up by Thierry Maulnier : that fertile half-century of ThCopliile de Viau, Gombauld, Saint-Amant, Du Bois Hus, and Tristan 1’Hermite. Even the briefest search through these pages is rewarding. Like other lyricists of his generation, Thkophife sought out the secrets of night and darkened...

... of the Queste del Saint Gruul to be instead a system of narrative episodes referring to each other. A knight’s request of a hermit for interpretation of a dream or an adventure elicits analogical narrative rather than abstract meaning. Chapter 4, the longest chapter, analyzes the Lancelot by means...