...Charles B. Shaw Copyright © 1923 by Duke University Press 1923 Childe Rolande Redivivus (A Fantasy) Charles B. Shaw North Carolina College for Women To begin in the approved Stevensonian manner, it was a dark and stormy night on Styx. Old Charon was loath to ferry me across. He grumbled...

... and orient. A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals 286 The South Atlantic Quarterly The soul, its converse, to what Power tis due: Whether for tribute to the august appeals Of Life, or dower in Love s high retinue, It serve; or, mid the dark wharf s cavernous breath, In Charon s palm it pay the toll...

...: Herodotus and his prede­ cessors, Hecataeus and Charon and Xanthus. A subject people can have no glories but departed ones, and when epic is dangerous or ludicrous, prose chronicles take its place. Herodotus, the culmina­ tion of the school and its only extant survivor, possibly because he removed to Athens...

..., or dower in Love s high retinue, It serve; or mid the dark wharf s cavernous breath, In Charon s palm it pay the toll to Death. It would be difficult indeed to find any precise literary in­ fluences in the work of Rossetti. One rarely meets with so original an artist. He was too strong, I might almost...

... with their metaphysics. Homer led the way, Charon piloted them safely over the Styx, and they made a safe and rapid flight to the United States. The first thing to do, they agreed, was to look up this university president and ask him what he had in mind when he asserted that Homer was dead. They found him without...

... as well. Odysseus believes in using himself up to such a degree that the leavings he shall bequeath Charon will be few or none. Bloom is content to endure; Odysseus finds it necessary to prevail. Bloom clings to life tenaciously enough, but he always experiences life in a lower register; if he does...

... Philippe, and brought upon Algeria the disastrous loss of her young and beloved governor general. Cavaignac, Changarnier, Marey-Monge, Charon and Hautpoul, all men who had seen service in Algeria, followed one another rapidly as governors general, until on January 1, 1852, the post was assumed by the Count...

... and dire hail, a universe of death, Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. Dante s Hell is guarded by Charon...

... it, matching the pure hallucination of Charon s ferry with which it begins. As a novelist I think I have real frustration with Castle to Castle. There s a line of Dahlberg I never met Celine, but I certainly met Dahlberg and the two of them seem alike as two peas in a pod. You can t, with a great man like...

... of British Worthies on the east side of the Elysian Fields, looks across the River Styx toward the Temple of Ancient Virtue (next to where the Ruin of Modern Virtue once stood). There seems to have been no sug­ gestion of casting Cook as Charon. The literature on Stowe, spanning three centuries, is vast...

..., Burke explains, Virgil encountered those of the dead who could not cross Cocytus and the Stygian swamps. Charon would not ferry them to their final abode because they had not been buried. Then comes the famous line: Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore. . . . That is the pattern. Whether...