The Temple Of Fame: A Vision

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When public interest in the group's activities made their meetings at the abbey untenable, Dashwood decided to create a setting at his own home, West Wycombe. A set of caves was dug beneath the parish church, which sits on chalky hills overlooking the house. Some say the caves themselves were designed to mimic the female anatomy. In any case, Dashwood designed other parts of his West Wycombe estate in keeping with his club's endeavors. His was clearly an X-rated garden. Sappho to Phaon, in Ovid's Epistles, Translated by Several Hands (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1712).

While writers discussing the poetic powers of eighteenth-century gardens tend to fixate on the small sector of Stowe containing these three temples with their political and religious connotations, other iconographical programs could be found in other parts of the garden. Ronald Paulson writes that the rotondo was the focal point of the garden, since it could be seen from all parts of the estate. This structure originally held a gilded statue of Venus; later this was replaced by a statue of Bacchus. Since the grounds also boasted a Temple of Venus (which, the current Stowe guidebook reports, contained "indelicate murals") and a Temple of Bacchus, Paulson argues that the overall theme of the garden was love in all its varieties. He states, "The temples thus tell of wives running away from their jealous husbands to consort with satyrs, Dido seducing Aeneas, and even a saint who finds it hard to resist sexual temptation in his grotto." An Essay On Criticism (London: Printed for W. Lewis & sold by W. Taylor, T. Osborn & J. Graves, 1711).Howard Weinbrot, Alexander Pope and the Traditions of Formal Verse Satire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982).

Pearsall, John Lydgate (1970), p. 109; Spearing, Medieval Dream-Poetry, p. 172; Davidoff, Beginning Well, p. 138. The protagonist of the 1967 film Herostratus hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle. Time magnifies everything after death; a man’s fame is increased as it passes from mouth to mouth after his burial. Sober Advice From Horace, To The Young Gentlemen about Town. As deliver'd in his Second Sermon (London: Printed for T. Boreman, 1734); republished as A Sermon against Adultery (London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1738). Seducing readers with possibilities remains what The Temple of Glas does best, and that special magnetism speaks not only to the provenance and textual history of Lydgate’s poem but also to its literary qualities. For indeed, if The Temple of Glas appears to “go public” with private matters we can no longer identify, there is a way in which fresh documentary evidence (should it ever come to light) would not be enough to settle the text’s meaning. Lydgate’s poem is not reducible to the literal or referential level, for what it offers is a mystifying and alluring aesthetic experience. 14 Designed to seduce its audience with a spectacle of a secret and illicit love affair, The Temple of Glas is contrived to capture and concentrate attention. I will return to consider the implied or hypothetical audience of the work whose good favor the poet attempts to court (i.e., “my lady,” who is the poet’s fictional paramour), but it may be equally important to recognize that the poem has designs on us (or any actual audience). Critics agree that it is charmingly obscure and faintly, delectably taboo. Something of the poem’s sex appeal lies in the way it is curiously reticent and secre­tive about its purposes while remaining extremely suggestive, puzzling, provoking, even scandalous. How it man­ages to turn its relatively limited resources to advantage is worth considering. The following discussion attempts to highlight the “strategies of the text” around which the reader’s aesthetic experience is structured and through which the mean­ing of The Temple of Glas is gradually realized. 15 Principally, these strategies include the careful modulation and juxtaposition of contrastive elements brought together in original and absorbing ways, making the poem itself a secret and seductive affair — which may, in fact, be the main point.

THE TEMPLE OF FAME.

Chaucer climbs the hill and sees the House of Fame and thousands of mythological musicians still performing their music. He enters the palace itself and sees Fame. He describes her as having countless tongues, eyes, and ears, to represent the spoken, seen, and heard aspects of fame. She also has partridge wings on her heels, to represent the speed at which fame can move. By 1933, however, just five years after women had secured the same voting rights as men, Emmeline Pankhurst’s role in that victory had already become obscure and distorted. And since 1933, no historian—until now—has expanded upon West’s effort to restore the centrality of Mrs. Pankhurst’s place in modern history. More is at stake, however, than doing justice to one individual. To understand what happened to Emmeline Pankhurst is to also to understand how figures like her and Rebecca West were marginalized as anti-Communists and relegated to the reactionary bin built by leftist/ Socialist historians who effectively rewrote the story of how women got the vote. Instead The Suffragette Movement (1931), written by Mrs. Pankhurst’s estranged radical daughter, Sylvia, became their foundationnarrative. Bammer, Anton (1990). "A Peripteros of the Geometric Period in the Artemision of Ephesus". Anatolian Studies. 40: 142. doi: 10.2307/3642799. JSTOR 3642799. S2CID 164151382.

The poem marks the beginning of Chaucer's Italian-influenced period, echoing the works of Boccaccio, Ovid, Virgil's Aeneid, and Dante's Divine Comedy. [3] Its three-part structure and references to various personalities suggest that perhaps the poem meant to parody the Divine Comedy. The poem also appears to be influenced by Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy. [4] The work shows a significant advancement in Chaucer's art from the earlier Book of the Duchess. At the end of the work, the "man of greet auctoritee" who reports tidings of love has been interpreted as a reference to either the wedding of Richard II and Anne, or the betrothal of Philippa of Lancaster and John I of Portugal, but Chaucer's typically irreverent treatment of great events makes this difficult to confirm. Other scholars have put forth the alternative hypothesis that the man of great authority is Elijah, or another of the Hebrew prophets. As with several of Chaucer's other works, The House of Fame is apparently unfinished—although whether the ending was indeed left incomplete, has been lost, or is a deliberate rhetorical device, is uncertain. The original statues are arranged chronologically according to the date of death of the person being depicted. Originally, the first statue was that of Heinrich I (876-936) and the final one that of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), who died just in time to make the initial cutoff date. (Currently, a person must be dead for at least twenty years before being considered for admission.)

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The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. In Three Books (London: Printed for A. Dodd, 1728); revised and enlarged as The Dunciad, Variorum. With the Prolegomena of Scriblerus (London: Printed for A. Dod [ sic], 1729); revised and enlarged again as The Dunciad, In Four Books. Printed according to the complete Copy found in the Year 1742. With the Prolegomena of Scriblerus, And Notes Variorum. To which are added, Several Notes now first publish'd, the Hypercritics of Aristarchus, and his Dissertation on the Hero of the Poem (London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1743). Transportation to Walhalla from the UNESCO-listed old town of Regensburg is easy with good bus connections as well as half-day excursions on Danube River pleasure boats. Walhalla is close to the autobahn A3 making it a great stop when traveling in the Danube Valley in Eastern Bavaria between Passau and Nuremberg (Nürnberg). Seaton, Sir Richard Roos, p. 376. Sir John Paston was betrothed but never married to Anne Haute, though they were together for nine years and produced an illegitimate child, so the poem may have had particular poignancy in their case. See Davis, Paston Letters and Papers. Douglas M. Knisht, Pope and the Heroic Tradition: A Critical Study of His Iliad (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951).