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... according to the prevailing cultural norms, are proscribed elsewhere- passivity and dependence for the patient, tenderness and self-abnegation for the nurse, and the moral sensibility associated with both. Debility also protects these characters from their own disruptive appetites...

... mystics intermingle images of pain and ecstasy; descriptions 282 REVIEWS include women practicing self-starvation and self-torture and nursing from Christ’s wounds and from the running sores of the sick-images alien and repugnant to modern...

... suggestive of a liturgy, and the “PrClude” opens as the nurse contemplates a golden disk and makes a “ghuflexion comme ri l’eblouissant / Nimbe lg-bas trits glorieux” (p. 55). The Mass, which by tradition is to be celebrated facing the rising sun, begins with a similar genuflection...

... to the child it is the incarnate form of God, as the creatures are the separate and collective manifestations of that God. Thus, Harold Bloom’s suggestion that the “human child of Songs of Innocence is a changeling, reared by a foster nurse who cannot recog- nize his divinity, and whose...

... it is as direct a statement as he is capable of, still needs interpretation. The whole passage is worth looking at: it is a fine example of his narrative power. For, all that time, I was just a male sick nurse. And what chance had I against those three hardened gamblers, who were all...

... staff of five young nurses-one of them a beautiful French girl, he added slyly. We do not have Whitman’s answer to this proposal, but Wallace’s letter of a month later (May 7) enables us to imagine that Whitman declined to come and gave as a reason that he too had just had an affair...

.... The followin poems, usually included in modern editions of the Songs, are not in Coleri&e’s list: “The Angel,” “My Pretty Rose-Tree,” “Ah ! Sun-Flower,” “The Lily,” and “The Human Abstract.” Nor does Coleridge list the well-known “Introduction” to Songs of Innocmce. “The Nurse’s Song,” which...

... for that thou canst not help, And study help for that which thou lament’st. Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. Here if thou stay, thou canst not see thy love ; Besides, thy staying will abridge thy life. Hope is a lover’s staff...

... considerable care on her mother, protecting her from her father’s beatings and nursing her in her last illness; yet the mother constantly favored the eldest boy. As a result, Wollstonecraft was forced to make her own maternal image for herself,” the heaviest part of the burden falling on Fanny Blood...

... ingredient of her character, a character fully formed at the end of the second canto. The scene with the nurse Glauce is an imitation, one of Spenser’s closest, of the pseudo-Vergilian Ciris.14 In the Ciris, the maiden in love is Scylla, the daughter of the King of Crete, and she loves her...

... Ambrosio calls him (pp. 102, 219). Bradomin sets out on a mission for the King with ten lancers, is hospitalized by a bullet wound in the arm, and, while he dallies with his fifteen-year-old nurse and his men sack the town in accordance with “la tradici6n de las lanzas castellanas” (p. 183...

... murmurs with my nurse’s song, And, from his alder shades and rocky falls, And from his fords and shallows, sent a voice That flowed along my dreams. . . . (1.270-74) These waters of nature, of consciousness, of immortality, made...

... will live; if he loses it, he will die. Pour some of his urine on a green nettle: if the nettle withers on the third day, he will die; otherwise he will live. Mix his urine with the milk of a woman who is nursing a male child: if they blend, he will live; if they separate, he will die...

... the patient boiled plantain juice to drink: if he retains it, he will live; if he loses it, he will die. Pour some of his urine on a green nettle: if the nettle withers on the third day, he will die; otherwise he will live. Mix his urine with the milk of a woman who is nursing a male child...

... of how a creature who comes to consciousness on its own could sense that it was alone—to sense, say, that the natural forms and sounds surrounding it were not company. After all, hunger drives Locke’s infant to call for “the teat,” a metonymy for mother or nurse that blurs the distinction between...

... Knight of Courtesy, happens along very oppor - tunely and helps Priscilla carry Aladine to the house of his father, Aldus. There the sorrowing girl remains, nursing her wounded lover and watching over him until he recovers consciousness on the fol- lowing day. The crisis over, the task...

..., the establishment of religious sisterhoods, and the growth of the profession of nursing. The capability of women for living alone, for friendship among * “Words and ‘Languageless’ Meanings: Limits of Expression in The Rime of !he Ancient Mariner,” MLQ, 38 (1977): 40-61. KATHLEEN BLAKE...

... version of the mediation provided by the wet nurse in the relationship between mother and child, or by God in the telepathic communication between mind-reading saints. In hagiographic examples such as those of the thirteenth-century mystic Christine of Stommeln, whose ecstatic experiences escalated...

... the nurse as a figure at once of cultural repression and of utopian imaginings of cross- cultural reconciliation. Trumpener’s own intercultural method comes into its own here, infusing the familiar romantic motifs of memory and forget- ting with a new charge. But the risks of her method are also...

... as a “wanderer” I>ut rather at rest, opening the windows of‘ his heart (“Die l‘enster airf’, die Herzeii auf to receptive con- tenipla tion ril ther than nursing a wounded reaction to frustrated EKNS‘I’ L,OEB 203 self-assertion: a posture...