| Kenneth Koch - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 324 pages
...of alternating lines give more the pleasure of surprise and of satisfaction after a little suspense: Who says that fictions only and false hair Become...they do their duty Not to a true, but painted chair? (GEORGE HERBERT, "Jordan(I)") In the old English ballads, only the second and fourth lines of the four-line... | |
| Robert Blair St. George - History - 2000 - 436 pages
...(I)" by Williams's contemporary and fellow Cambridge scholar George Herbert: Who says that fichons only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth...except they do their duty Not to a true but painted chair?39 Herbert's allusions to the false fronts of hair and painted inventions and the way he links... | |
| Wendy Pullan, Harshad Bhadeshia - Philosophy - 2000 - 218 pages
...theories also relate the structuring of the universe: apparently from out of nothing, something. In asking 'Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?', George Herbert typified the seventeenth century in marking the passing of the understanding of the... | |
| Wystan Hugh Auden - American drama - 1996 - 598 pages
...no beautie? Is all good structure in a winding stair? May no lines passe, except they do their dutie Not to a true, but painted chair? Is it not verse, except enchanted groves And sudden arbours shadow coarse-spunne lines? Must purling streams refresh a lover's loves? Must all be vail'd while he that... | |
| David Clifford, Laurence Roussillon - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 299 pages
...of verity in artistic creation. The same issue is dealt with in the opening lines of 'Jordan (1)': 'Who says that fictions only and false hair/ Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?' 18 Yet, there is a consistent difference between the two poems. While Herbert uses the antithesis I... | |
| George S. Lensing - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 412 pages
...himself to efface or disfigure his goal as he returned again and again toward it. Like Herbert he asks, "Who says that fictions only and false hair / Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?"" Consequently, he had to be ever on his guard to suppress any proclivity to pollute the real by personal... | |
| Richard A. Mollin - Computers - 2005 - 704 pages
...can be chosen for an appropriate, arbitrarily high, value of n. 6.2 Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) Who says that fictions only and false hair Become...beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair? George Herbert (1593-1633), English Poet and Clergyman A public-key infrastructure, or PKI, consists... | |
| Robert Sheppard - Poetry - 2005 - 298 pages
...otherwise be seen as solely an attack on the Islamic fundamentalist fatwa. Herbert's rhetorical questions, 'Who says that fictions only and false hair/ Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?' are refunctioned in the text.84 The second becomes the poem's epigraph (where the 'in truth' becomes... | |
| Lothar Fietz - 2005 - 260 pages
...George Herbert beginnt sein programmatisches Gedicht »Jordan I« mit der rhetorischen Frage: Who sayes that fictions only and false hair become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?2 und wendet sich in der Folge gegen eine religiöse Dichtung, in der durch metaphorische Sprachornamentik... | |
| English literature - 1900 - 624 pages
...the concettisti, and (it may be) at Donne himself, in the lines strangely entitled 'Jordan' : — ' Who says that fictions only and false hair Become...beauty ? Is all good structure in a winding stair ? •'""*• Must all be veiled, while he that reads, divines, Catching the sense at two removes ?... | |
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