...Arthur H. Nethercot Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 CHRISTABEL’S WILD-FLOWER WINE By ARTHURH. NETHERCOT John Livingston Lowes, Wylie Sypher, and others have amply demonstrated Coleridge’s habit of assimilating and transmuting...

... an examination of its themes and images in relation to the rest of Emerson’s writings, we shall see that “Bacchus” renders Emerson’s thought in a very precise and highly poetic way. The poem is a hymn to Bacchus, who functions in his traditional dual role as both the god of wine and the god...

... BEUWULF 461b The controversy over the emendation of gara has lately been taken up by John R. Byers, Jr., who uses Malone’s arguments to dispose of Thorpe’s wara and Grundtvig’s Wedera, and offers extremely convinc- ing reasons for rejecting Holthausen’s wig~nu.~Byers emends to wine...

... that urbane group of individuals who are thoroughly conversant with eighteenth-century literature, as well as those who know good wine from bad, because only such high livers can savor to the full the sumptuous fare of w?t spread out in unstinted profusion. We do not have to sit down...

... of supplementary evidence for this scene, we notice that the expression “hold, belly, hold” in Robin’s speech, “. . . I’ll give thee white wine, red wine, claret wine, sack . . . hold belly, 15This is the only instance cited by NED. 16 Ed. Grosart, I, 202. 17 This is McK.’s...

...-crowns and ivy-aprons in descriptions of Bacchus or his votaries. Spenser is of course aware of the tradition. In the October eclogue, Cuddie wishes to be a Bacchanal, drunk with wine and crowned with ivy (S.C., Oct., lll), and E. K.’s gloss is explicit- wild ivy is “dedicated...

... in which Liberman permits Por- ter’s finest single work, Noon Wine, to become lost in some not-very-impor- tant distinctions drawn between the novella and the short story. On another level, is there sufficient evidence offered for reading “Maria Concepcion’’ as an embodiment of the early D...

... the excessive use of wine because of its ability to arouse sexual desires, and both pointed to Lot and to Noah as examples.16 The causal relationship between drunkenness and lust appears as an axiom in popular medieval didactic works. Chaucer provides us with some convenient and typical...

...] the island (ibid., p. 9)-there are a number of immediate recalls of the language of the first book of the Odyssey. Mulligan’s “Epi oinopa tonton” (ibid., p. 7; repeated, p. 565) and the use of the term omphalos (ibid.,pp. 9, 19) echo the “wine-dark sea” (Odyssey, p. 6) and “the navel of the sea...

... the tale involves a variety of sources: Jean de Meun, the popular debate poems between wine and water, Ovid’s story of Midas, Celtic and Roman traditions behind the found- ing of Bath, and the meeting between Jesus and the Samaritan woman (John 4%-15). Encoded within Alison’s combative...

... 239 vealed in Book 11, is to assert the clearly defined self against the daimonic forces that threaten to dissolve it. Thus the symbolic enemies of Guyon are the forces of the irrational-fire, the sea, wine, drugs, sensual women, Cupidic Eros. The strategy of passionate love...

... . Liverpool : Liverpool University Press . Yogananda Paramahansa . 1996 . Introduction to Wine of the Mystic: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam , by Yogananda Paramahansa , ix – xi . Los Angeles : Self-Realization Fellowship . Yogananda Paramahansa . 1999 . God Talks with Arjuna...

... is truly inspired), he performs wonders, such as pouring a great bowl of wine into an already full bottle and then taking over the brass balls of the juggler to surpass him, saying: “This poor clown is ignorant of his art. Come forward and see an expert perform” (p. 72). After the debacle...

... to nothing about drinking. In “A Christmas Dinner,” Dickens exhorts his readers to celebrate the season with “reeking punch,” as readily as they might with “sparklingwine.” It would be good to be told at what points on the social scale reeking punch gave way to sparkling wine, where the sparkling...

... and, also like Vice, he prompts the hero (Prince Hal) to evil courses. Rabelaisian laughter is his livelihood, and rascally foolery, his stock-in-trade : he implies that only wine saves him from being an utter fool and coward,l3 and that he depends entirely upon the willingness of others to laugh...

... of the chimney’s gentle heat, distilled through that warm mass of masonry. Better for wines is it than voyages to the Indies ; my chimney is itself a tropic. A chair by my chimney on a November day is as good for an invalid as a long season spent in Cuba.. .. How my wife’s geraniums bud there ! Bud...

... find on trees. The merry song they warble there, Is rich reward they seize. But, may I beg, be’t for one thing A cup of wine let for me bring, Best wine, so pure a cup.- He seized the cup...

... and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace, it poses the dilemma of trusting one’s own eyes: how can water confer salvation, or a piece of bread Christ’s sacrifice? As the Anglican Book of Common Prayer has it: “Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of Bread and Wine) in the Supper...

... Triumphant, recumbent in fruits and flowers: What wond’rous Life in this I lead! Ripe Apples drop about my head; The Luscious Clusters of the Vine Upon my Mouth do crush their Wine; The Nectaren, and curious Peach...

... and therefore the method are more polemical than critical. And the chapter which brings to- gether “He,” “Holiday,” and Noon Wine in order to study the ironic inter- play between articulation and inarticulation is challenging and original, but at a cost: for the second time in Liberman’s book...