------------------------------------------------------------- Specular Desires: _Orpheus and Pygmalion as Aesthetic Paradigms . in Petrarch's Rime sparse_ by Thérèse Migraine-George . http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/cls/36.3migraine-george.html . <<Petrarch seems to transform Laura into a *SHADOW* when he looks at her or thinks of her. Laura indeed appears in the Rime sparse mostly as a *SHADOW*

-------------------------------------------------------- <<He thinks you're not a GENTLEMAN. God, these bloody English. Bursting with money and indigestion. Because he comes from OXFORD. You know, Dedalus; you have the real *OXFORD MANNER* . He can't make you out.>> ----------------------------------------------------------- . St. VEROnica Feastday: July 12 . << Woman who wiped

> Both notions are close to fatuous. And, as I have to keep telling Strats, the issues here are not one of 'possibility' -- but of probability. When we have a series of plays set in Northern Italy, and we have two candidates for the authorship. Which is the most probable -- the one who never left England, or the one who lived in the area for a year or so?

Mark Cipra wrote: Just saw "The Painted Veil", and it's unusually good. From a Somerset Maugham story, it's a veddy British-style movie made mostly by Americans. -------------------------------------------------------- Spenser dedication in Fairie Queene (1590) . To the right Honourable the Earle of Oxenford, Lord high Chamberlayne of England. &c. . *Vnder a shady VELE is therein writ*

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