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<title>M54, 9 of 11. [Anon: The road led to the old graves...]. Typescript fragment, 8 fols.</title>
<author>Virginia Woolf</author>
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<name>Joshua Phillips</name>
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<funder>The Leverhulme Trust: Grant ECF-2022-602</funder>
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<authority>The Estate of Virginia Woolf, administered by the Society of Authors</authority>
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<p>© Estate of Virginia Woolf 2022</p>
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<p>M54, 9 of 11. [Anon: The road led to the old graves...]. Typescript fragment, 8 fols.</p>
<p>N.B.: This is one of eleven sub-fragments identified in the Berg Collection's M54. [Anon: The printing press brought the past into existence...]. Typescript fragments, unsigned and undated, 35 fols. I have determined pagination and sequencing based on subject matter. M54 as curated by the Berg Collection is available as part of 'The Digital Anon' and can be found at [LINK].</p>
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<p>Text encoded as part of 'The Digital "Anon": A Digital Genetic Edition of Virginia Woolf's Final Essays'. This project, funded by Leverhulme Grant ECF-2022-602, seeks to construct a TEI-XML based digital edition of the drafts of 'Anon' and 'The Reader', among the final documents Woolf wrote before her death.</p>
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<l>16</l>
</p>
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<l>The road led to the old graves, to the stones where the</l>
<l>old pagan English had offered sacrifice. The peasants still</l>
<l>went that way, in
<choice>
<sic>spir ng</sic>
<corr>spring</corr>
</choice>, summer and winter, by instinct.</l>
<l>The old Gods
<choice>
<sic>stil</sic>
<corr>still</corr>
</choice> lay hidden beneath the new.</l>
<l>Even if they were now nameless, it was to <del>them</del> do them</l>
<l>homage, to win crops, husbands, health, that the</l>
<l>peasants came <del>at the proper season</del> in spring summer and</l>
<l>winter.</l>
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<l>It is the printing press that we owe their</l>
<l>preservation. <quote source="#" rend="inline">"After that I had accomplished and
<choice>
<sic>finsihed</sic>
<corr>finished</corr>
</choice></quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">divers histories"</quote> <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-wcax" key="Caxton, William">Caxton</rs> wrote in
<choice>
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<corr>1470</corr>
</choice> in the preface</l>
<l>to the <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-mort" key="Morte d'Arthur">Morte DArthur</rs>, <quote source="#">"many noble and divers gentlemen</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">of this realm of England came and demanded me many and oft</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">times ..... to imprint the history of the said noble king</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">and conqueror <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-kart" key="Arthur (King)">King Arthur</rs>, and of his knights with the</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">history of the <rs type="object" xml:id="obj-gral" key="Holy Gral (Sang Gral)">San greal</rs> and of the death and ending of</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">the said Arthur."</quote> The twenty one books of the Morte DArthur</l>
<l>preserve what lay
<choice>
<sic>benea th</sic>
<corr>beneath</corr>
</choice>, <add place="above">the house, in the field</add>
<choice>
<sic>Ther</sic>
<corr>there</corr>
</choice> we tap into the deep reservoir</l>
<l>of common belief that lay behind <add>somewhere [beneath?]</add>the peasant and the noble.</l>
<l>The
<choice>
<sic>legnd</sic>
<corr>legend</corr>
</choice> was still alive in the nineteenth century.</l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">"...folks do say"</quote> said a peasant at <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-cadb" key="Cadbury">Cadbury</rs> <quote source="#">that on the</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">night of the full moon King
<choice>
<sic>Arthus</sic>
<corr>Arthur</corr>
</choice> and his men ride round</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">the hill, and their horses are shod with silver..."</quote></l>
<l>A silver horseshoe, <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-jlel" key="Leland, John">Leland</rs> says, was found in <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-hen8" key="Henry VIII"></rs></l>
<l>time at <rs type="person" xml:id="pla-came" key="Camelot">Camelot</rs>. It is in <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-tmal" key="Malory, Thomas">Malorys</rs> pages that we hear the</l>
<l>voice of <add place="above">that</add> anon <add place="above">who</add> murmuring in the mind of King and Queen and</l>
<l>peasant, They remembered how the old King</l>
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<l>17</l>
</p>
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<l>and his knights went their ways through the wild woods seek</l>
<l>ing adventure. <add hand="ms" place="above">When</add> <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-wcax" key="Caxton, William">Caxton</rs> <del hand="ms">himself</del> doubted. <del>No</del>such <add hand="ms" place="above">a</add> man, he</l>
<l>objected, had ever lived. But the nobles were positive,</l>
<l>they said that you could see <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-gawa" key="Gawain">Gawaines</rs> skull at <rs type="place" xml:id="psn-dove" key="Dover">Dover</rs></l>
<l>and the <rs type="object" xml:id="obj-roun" key="Round Table">Round Table</rs> at <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-winc" key="Winchester">Winchester</rs> and in <quote source="#" rend="inline">"in other places</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline"><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-lanc" key="Lancelot">Launcelots</rs> sword and many other things.</quote></l>
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<l>The book itself represents <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-wcax" key="Caxton, William">Caxtons</rs> scepticism, and the</l>
<l>nobles faith. It is half fable, half fact. There is <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-lond" key="London">London</rs>,</l>
<l>and <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-carl" key="Carlisle">Carlisle</rs> and <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-stal" key="St Albans">St Albans</rs>; there is the <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-arch">Archbishop of</rs></l>
<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-arch" key="Archbishop of Canterbury">Canterbury</rs> and <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-stpa" key="St Paul's Cathedral">St Pauls</rs>. But the roads lead past London to</l>
<l>castles where Knights lie in prison; down the roads ride</l>
<l>Queens on white mules; <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-morg" key="Morgan le Fay">Morgan le Fay</rs> turns suddenly to</l>
<l>stone; and a hand rises from a lake holding <rs type="object" xml:id="obj-exca" key="Excalibur">Excalibur</rs>.</l>
<l>In the
<choice>
<sic>canfdour</sic>
<corr>candour</corr>
</choice> with
<choice>
<sic>wh h</sic>
<corr>which</corr>
</choice> it is told, it is a childs story.</l>
<l>But <del hand="ms">the</del> <add hand="ms" place="above">the</add> child has lived for centuries. It has not our pers</l>
<l>spective. The inventories, the catalogues are
<choice>
<sic>mad</sic>
<corr>made</corr>
</choice> with</l>
<l>a childs
<choice>
<sic>partciularity</sic>
<corr>particularity</corr>
</choice>. The clear eye sees definitely and</l>
<l>without exaggeration. Beauty is in the thing itself, not i</l>
<l>in the writers manipulation. <quote source="#" rend="inline">So he went in and searched</quote></l>
<quote source="#" rend="inline">
<l>chamber from chamber to chamber, and found his bed, but she</l>
<l>was not there; then Balin looked into a fair little garden</l>
<l>and under a laurel tree he saw her lie upon a quilt of</l>
<l>green samite and a
<choice>
<sic>kmight</sic>
<corr>knight</corr>
</choice> with her, and under their heads</l>
<l>grass and herbs."</l>
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<l><add hand="ms" place="inline">But</add> It is not a childs world; it is a world before self</l>
<l>consciousness has raised
<choice>
<sic>i s</sic>
<corr>its</corr>
</choice> mirror. The men and women are</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>angualr</sic>
<corr>angular</corr>
</choice>, gigantic; freed from
<choice>
<sic>somthing</sic>
<corr>something</corr>
</choice> impure; yet sin</l>
<l>tarnished,
<choice>
<sic>acqauinted</sic>
<corr>acquainted</corr>
</choice> with sorrow, corrupt, in the midst of</l>
<l>this fresh landscape, remembering,</l>
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<sic>i8</sic>
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<l>We lose our bearings following these Knights and ladies;</l>
<l>to live in
<choice>
<sic>t is</sic>
<corr>this</corr>
</choice>
<choice>
<sic>prehistroic</sic>
<corr>prehistoric</corr>
</choice> land we must
<choice>
<sic>sehd</sic>
<corr>shed</corr>
</choice> many habits</l>
<l>of
<choice>
<sic>thoght</sic>
<corr>thought</corr>
</choice>; but after all it is not an unreal world;</l>
<l>a fabricated world; <choice>
<sic>is</sic>
<corr>it</corr>
</choice> still exists in us, deep sunk,</l>
<l>savage, primitive; <choice>
<sic>m remembered</sic>
<corr>misremembered</corr>
</choice>.</l>
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<l>Of the writer, <choice>
<sic>notning</sic>
<corr>nothing</corr>
</choice> is
<choice>
<sic>knonw</sic>
<corr>known</corr>
</choice>. He is not <add hand="ms" place="above">He still is merged</add></l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>disnctin c</sic>
<corr>distinct</corr>
</choice> from
<choice>
<sic>hsi ook</sic>
<corr>his book</corr>
</choice>. It is still the anonymous voice</l>
<l>speaking
<choice>
<sic>anonysmously</sic>
<corr>anonymously</corr>
</choice> generally
<choice>
<sic>hat</sic>
<corr>that</corr>
</choice> the
<choice>
<sic>lsiener</sic>
<corr>listener</corr>
</choice> already</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>hald</sic>
<corr>half</corr>
</choice> knows, or
<choice>
<sic>rmemebers</sic>
<corr>remembers</corr>
</choice>. The
<choice>
<sic>lsiener</sic>
<corr>listener</corr>
</choice> hears the voice</l>
<l>partly in himself; as it comes from the man at the back</l>
<l>door who has been travelling in
<choice>
<sic>trange</sic>
<corr>strange</corr>
</choice> parts
<choice>
<sic>acrsoos</sic>
<corr>across</corr>
</choice> the</l>
<l>marsh across the flood to
<choice>
<sic>r mind</sic>
<corr>remind</corr>
</choice> the
<choice>
<sic>peasnt</sic>
<corr>peasant</corr>
</choice> and the noble</l>
<l>of the world that was before them. And still the dream</l>
<l>lingered; for the
<choice>
<sic>peasnts</sic>
<corr>peasants</corr>
</choice></l>
</p>
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<l>In the great house and the cottage this half articulate</l>
<l>voice murmured of old gods
<choice>
<sic>a d</sic>
<corr>and</corr>
</choice> kings and
<choice>
<sic>inihgts</sic>
<corr>knights</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>The well and the tree were still haunted. King Arthur</l>
<l>the
<choice>
<sic>foreste s</sic>
<corr>foresters</corr>
</choice> said in the thirteenth
<choice>
<sic>cnetury</sic>
<corr>century</corr>
</choice>, ;;;<quote source="#" rend="inline">"about</quote></l>
<quote source="#" rend="inline">
<l>noon or
<choice>
<sic>midngiht</sic>
<corr>midnight</corr>
</choice> when the moon is
<choice>
<sic>sufulland</sic>
<corr>full and</corr>
</choice> shining</l>
<l><choice>
<sic>t e</sic>
<corr>they</corr>
</choice> often see an array of hunters with dogs and sound of</l>
<l>horns who
<choice>
<sic>ins anser</sic>
<corr>answer</corr>
</choice> to the
<choice>
<sic>enwuirers</sic>
<corr>enquirers</corr>
</choice> says</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>yhat</sic>
<corr>that</corr>
</choice> they are of the
<choice>
<sic>hosuehold</sic>
<corr>household</corr>
</choice> and fellowship of</l>
</quote>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">King
<choice>
<sic>Art ur</sic>
<corr>Arthur</corr>
</choice>."</quote> Along the roads from town to town</l>
<l>from house to
<choice>
<sic>ouse</sic>
<corr>house</corr>
</choice>, came the
<choice>
<sic>minstresl</sic>
<corr>minstrels</corr>
</choice> the jugglers and</l>
<l>the impudent bardes.
<choice>
<sic>whil</sic>
<corr>While</corr>
</choice> for those who could read it,</l>
<l>Caxtons book
<choice>
<sic>tol</sic>
<corr>told</corr>
</choice> the old stories set out in print.</l>
</p>
<p> <!-- grab IIIF selector for this -->
<l>then
<choice>
<sic>late</sic>
<corr>later</corr>
</choice> the instinct to enact, to impersonate</l>
</p>
</div>
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<l>19</l>
</p>
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<l>
<choice>
<sic>hat</sic>
<corr>that</corr>
</choice> they believed imagined came into existence.</l>
<l>Even the King and Queen shared the it, and must have</l>
<l>their actors or
<choice>
<sic>minstersl</sic>
<corr>minstrels</corr>
</choice> to
<choice>
<sic>vie</sic>
<corr>give</corr>
</choice> <add hand="ms" place="above">body</add> vie tongue to this</l>
<l>hidden
<choice>
<sic>insticnt</sic>
<corr>instinct</corr>
</choice> <add>[illeg.]</add>. The
<choice>
<sic>acror</sic>
<corr>actor</corr>
</choice> was
<choice>
<sic>despied</sic>
<corr>despised</corr>
</choice>;</l>
<l>did he not make use of his body? and did he not,</l>
<l>feeling himself an
<choice>
<sic>otcast</sic>
<corr>outcast</corr>
</choice>, use the
<choice>
<sic>outiders</sic>
<corr>outsiders</corr>
</choice> privilege of</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>irrepsoneible</sic>
<corr>irresponsible</corr>
</choice> mockery? But the Kings and Queens tolerated</l>
<l>him, as
<choice>
<sic>to rate</sic>
<corr>tolerate</corr>
</choice> those who say what we are too proud</l>
<l>to admit. Even the church men <del hand="ms">had to a re</del> <add hand="ms" place="above">aware</add> that the
<choice>
<sic>Gids</sic>
<corr>Gods</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>that <del hand="ms">he worshipped
<choice>
<sic>wre</sic>
<corr>were</corr>
</choice> not theirs</del> had to
<choice>
<sic>yeild</sic>
<corr>yield</corr>
</choice> to him;</l>
<l>or <del hand="ms">to make use of his gift to</del> If they could they constrained</l>
<l>the
<choice>
<sic>c ors</sic>
<corr>actors</corr>
</choice> and the
<choice>
<sic>da cers</sic>
<corr>dancers</corr>
</choice>
<choice>
<sic>t</sic>
<corr>to</corr>
</choice> put off their
<choice>
<sic>l evea</sic>
<corr>leaves</corr>
</choice>
<choice>
<sic>na d</sic>
<corr>and</corr>
</choice> bells</l>
<l>and dress themselves as the sacred figures in a miracle play.</l>
<l>But the churchmen did their best to
<choice>
<sic>prvent</sic>
<corr>prevent</corr>
</choice> them.</l>
</p>
</div>
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<l>7</l>
</p>
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<l>The printing press brought the past into existence.</l>
<l>It <add hand="ms" place="above">also</add> brought into existence, seen
<choice>
<sic>agoanst</sic>
<corr>against</corr>
</choice> the back</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>rgound</sic>
<corr>ground</corr>
</choice> of the past. And it brough by degrees the
<choice>
<sic>indivual</sic>
<corr>individual</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>into existence--the <del hand="ms">
<choice>
<sic>indi idual</sic>
<corr>individual</corr>
</choice> who looking back sees himself</del> <add hand="typewriter" place="above">the man who is separate from his book.</add></l>
<l><del hand="ms">against the background</del>. The individual emerges</l>
<l>at last. <add hand="ms" place="above">He is a chronicler in the [illeg.]</add> His name is
<rs type="person" xml:id="psn-rhol" key="Holinshed, Rafael"><choice>
<sic>Holingshed</sic>
<corr>Holinshed</corr>
</choice></rs>; it is also
<rs type="person" xml:id="psn-whar" key="Harrison, William"><choice>
<sic>Har ison</sic>
<corr>Harrison</corr>
</choice></rs>.</l>
<l>Harrison tells us that he has books; and a mastiff;</l>
<l>and digs
<choice>
<sic>i</sic>
<corr>in</corr>
</choice> the ground for Roman coins. He tells us that he</l>
<l>has
<choice>
<sic>nev</sic>
<corr>never</corr>
</choice> been more than forty miles from <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-radw" key="Radwinter">radwinter</rs> in <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-esse" key="Essex">Essex</rs>.</l>
<l>The individual, <del hand="ms">still much
<choice>
<sic>sumplified</sic>
<corr>simplified</corr>
</choice></del>, but <del>still</del> no longer</l>
<l>nameless,
<choice>
<sic>emrges</sic>
<corr>emerges</corr>
</choice>. He is losing his ambiguity.</l>
<l>the present is becoming visible. Harrison sees the present</l>
<l>moment (15 ) against the settled orderly past.</l>
<l>The present looks
<choice>
<sic>degenrate</sic>
<corr>degenerate</corr>
</choice>, raw, against that past.</l>
</p>
</div>
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<l>20</l>
</p>
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<l>It was at half past two in
<choice>
<sic>th</sic>
<corr>the</corr>
</choice> afternoon that the</l>
<l>trumpets
<choice>
<sic>dounded</sic>
<corr>sounded</corr>
</choice> and the flag flew over the Theatre.</l>
<l>The playhouse was open to the sky. A penny or twopence was</l>
<l>the price of a seat. There was no scenery; but the walls</l>
<l>were painted; and the actors were richly dressed, according</l>
<l>to one spectator in the cast off robes of the <choice>
<sic>novles</sic>
<corr>nobles</corr>
</choice>, sold</l>
<l>by their servants. What other amusement
<choice>
<sic>as</sic>
<corr>was</corr>
</choice> there in the</l>
<l>afternoon, for the gentlement of the court, <del>the</del> of the Inns</l>
<l>of Court, for the numbers of captains and soldiers about</l>
<l>London? Only the amusements that <rs xml:id="psn-hlat">Latimer</rs> deplored;</l>
<l>carding, dicing, gaming, following of <del>[whores?] and</del></l>
<l>harlots and drinking. The <del>river</del> audience came from</l>
<l>the
<choice>
<sic>drowded</sic>
<corr>crowded</corr>
</choice> festering little streets <del>that</del> round <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-stpa" key="St Paul's Cathedral">St Pauls</rs></l>
<l>where the buried smelt so strong. The river was crowded with</l>
<l>wherries ferrying them across: The riverside people
<choice>
<sic>depnded</sic>
<corr>depended</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>upon their fares. The flag flew; the trumpets
<choice>
<sic>dsounded</sic>
<corr>sounded</corr>
</choice>; and</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>audince</sic>
<corr>audience</corr>
</choice> crowded into the open playhouse, clustered round the</l>
<l>stage; and heard:</l>
</p>
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<l>Brother Cosroe, I find myself aggrieved,</l>
<l>Yet insufficient
<choice>
<sic>yto</sic>
<corr>to</corr>
</choice> express the same;</l>
<l>For it requires a great and thundering speech</l>
</quote>
</p>
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<l>At last the voice speaks from the actual body of one man.</l>
<l><del>[illeg.] a King</del>.And the
<choice>
<sic>wolrd</sic>
<corr>world</corr>
</choice> became visible. Egypt, Libya;</l>
<l>Persia; Greece. It unrolled itself <add hand="ms" place="above">time</add>; and the armies of
<choice>
<sic>gr at</sic>
<corr>great</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>Kings; and plains; and palaces. There is no abstraction any</l>
<l>longer. All is visible tangible, audible. <del>The words</del></l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>ords</sic>
<corr>Words</corr>
</choice> seem to swell and stretch and tumble over
<choice>
<sic>themslves</sic>
<corr>themselves</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>in the effort to give body to this vast universe.</l>
<l>They can scarcely contain all they would bring forward.</l>
</p>
</div>
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<p facs="https://llkn576nqxepo6yucgfh2nl2ea0kkigc.lambda-url.eu-west-2.on.aws/iiif/2/m54-9/m54-9-11/889,84,172,147/full/0/default.tif">
<l>21</l>
</p>
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<quote source="#" rend="inline">
<l>The
<choice>
<sic>sprung</sic>
<corr>spring</corr>
</choice> is hindered by your smothering host,</l>
<l>For neither rain can fall upon the earth,</l>
<l>Nor sun reflex his virtuous beams thereon,</l>
<l>The ground is mantled with such multitudes.</l>
</quote>
</p>
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<l>
<choice>
<sic>Abrtactions</sic>
<corr>Abstractions</corr>
</choice> withdraw themselves. <del>All is</del> The Kings and</l>
<l>Emperors stride forth, palpable, coloured, strident. The ae</l>
<l>They are hewn, mob- monstrous, brilliantly painted;</l>
<l>but they movel they speak. They emerge like great moths,</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>stillcreased</sic>
<corr>still creased</corr>
</choice> and damp, shaking their wings in splendid</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>aburd</sic>
<corr>absurd</corr>
</choice> hyperboles and raptures and The great names crash</l>
<l>like cymbals</l>
</p>
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<quote source="#" rend="inline">
<l>tell him, <del>, Lord</del> thy Lord the Turkish Emperor,</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>Dre d</sic>
<corr>Dread</corr>
</choice> Lord of Afric,
<choice>
<sic>Eruope</sic>
<corr>Europe</corr>
</choice> and Asia,</l>
<l>Great king and
<choice>
<sic>conqueor</sic>
<corr>conqueror</corr>
</choice> of
<choice>
<sic>Greacia</sic>
<corr>Graecia</corr>
</choice>,</l>
<l>The ocean, Terrene, and the coal-black sea....</l>
</quote>
</p>
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<l>It is bombast, <del hand="ms">it is
<choice>
<sic>pagenatry</sic>
<corr>pageantry</corr>
</choice></del>; it is hyperbole. And yet</l>
<l><del>
<choice>
<sic>pusis ant</sic>
<corr>puissant</corr>
</choice></del>, Words
<choice>
<sic>mout</sic>
<corr>mount</corr>
</choice>; pile on top of each
<choice>
<sic>ther</sic>
<corr>other</corr>
</choice>;</l>
<l>surpass common sense;
<choice>
<sic>clah</sic>
<corr>clash</corr>
</choice> and rebound:</l>
</p>
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<quote source="#" rend="inline">
<l>
<choice>
<sic>W se</sic>
<corr>Whose</corr>
</choice> eyes are brighter than the lamps of
<choice>
<sic>Haevan</sic>
<corr>Heaven</corr>
</choice>,</l>
<l>And speech more
<choice>
<sic>pl sant</sic>
<corr>pleasant</corr>
</choice> than sweet harmony!</l>
<l>that with thy looks canst
<choice>
<sic>clclear</sic>
<corr>clear</corr>
</choice> the
<choice>
<sic>datkemed</sic>
<corr>darkened</corr>
</choice> sky,</l>
<l>And calm the rage of thundering Jupiter...</l>
</quote>
</p>
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<l>He is beyond the provinces of plain
<choice>
<sic>pseech</sic>
<corr>speech</corr>
</choice>,</l>
<l>revelling in some untouched garden of untouched blooms;</l>
<l>picking
<choice>
<sic>plaucking</sic>
<corr>plucking</corr>
</choice> words, and strewing them.</l>
<l>There is no shadow; all is gold and
<choice>
<sic>urple</sic>
<corr>purple</corr>
</choice>.</l>
<l>Yet in the very pitch and height of this extravagance,</l>
<l><del>the theme</del> he veers,</l>
</p>
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<quote source="#" rend="block">
<l>So poets say my lord.</l>
</quote>
</p>
</div>
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<p facs="https://llkn576nqxepo6yucgfh2nl2ea0kkigc.lambda-url.eu-west-2.on.aws/iiif/2/m54-9/m54-9-13/949,97,122,133/full/0/default.tif">
<l>22</l>
</p>
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<quote source="#" rend="inline">
<l>
<choice>
<sic>An</sic>
<corr>And</corr>
</choice> tis a pretty toy to be a poet..</l>
</quote>
</p>
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<del><l>So distended with rapture, the tune changes</l>
<l>effectively.</l></del>
</p>
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<l>Could he stop, he would cut deeper. But there is no pause;</l>
<l>no shadow. The
<choice>
<sic>pagenat</sic>
<corr>pageant</corr>
</choice> <add hand="ms" place="above">[illeg.]</add>. The horses neigh.</l>
<l>Kings and
<choice>
<sic>Empeors</sic>
<corr>Emperors</corr>
</choice> emerge. Battles are fought. Blood flows.</l>
<l>And all over this
<choice>
<sic>multitidionous</sic>
<corr>multitudinous</corr>
</choice> splendour broods
<choice>
<sic>agedy</sic>
<corr>tragedy</corr>
</choice></l>
<l><del>Do we foretell</del> We forbode. We behold the thing as <add hand="ms" place="above">We [illeg.] there</add></l>
<l>spectacle. There is the end to come. Meanwhile, let us
<choice>
<sic>boas</sic>
<corr>boast</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>and triumph.</l>
</p>
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<l>Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend</l>
<l>The wondrous architecture of the world,</l>
<l>And measure <choice>
<sic>very</sic>
<corr>every</corr>
</choice> wandering planets course</l>
<l>Still climbing after
<choice>
<sic>knowlede</sic>
<corr>knowledge</corr>
</choice>
<choice>
<sic>infinute</sic>
<corr>infinite</corr>
</choice>,</l>
<l>And always moving as the restless
<choice>
<sic>spe eres</sic>
<corr>spheres</corr>
</choice>,</l>
<l>Will us to wear ourselves, and never rest...</l>
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<l>That is the
<choice>
<sic>meldy</sic>
<corr>melody</corr>
</choice> the marching song of this brave</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>septacle</sic>
<corr>spectacle</corr>
</choice>. And yet, as if the poet slipped the noose of his</l>
<l>audiences,
<choice>
<sic>releved</sic>
<corr>relieved</corr>
</choice> himself of its pressure for one moment,</l>
<l>we hear:</l>
<l>amid the
<choice>
<sic>so nding</sic>
<corr>sounding</corr>
</choice> brass:</l>
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<l>What is
<choice>
<sic>beautym</sic>
<corr>beauty,</corr>
</choice> saith my sufferings, then?</l>
<l>If all the pens that ever poets held</l>
<l>Had fed the
<choice>
<sic>feelingsx</sic>
<corr>feelings</corr>
</choice> of their masters' thoughts,</l>
</quote>
<l>.....</l>
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<l>If all these had made one poems
<choice>
<sic>riod</sic>
<corr>period</corr>
</choice>,</l>
<l>And all combined in
<choice>
<sic>b auty's</sic>
<corr>beauty's</corr>
</choice> worthiness,</l>
<l>Yet should there hover in their
<choice>
<sic>estless</sic>
<corr>restless</corr>
</choice> heads</l>
<l>one thought, one <del>wonder</del> grace, one wonder, at the least,</l>
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<l>23</l>
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<l>Which into <del hand="ms">words no virtue can digest</del></l>
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<l>It is a break; <add hand="ms" place="above">a strain</add> out of keeping; <del>to be recalled at once</del></l>
<l>a sign that the dramatist is separate from the
<choice>
<sic>anony ous</sic>
<corr>anonymous</corr>
</choice> play</l>
<l>maker; There is no little language to put on Kings lips;</l>
<l>so that he cannot as yet
<choice>
<sic>amalgamante</sic>
<corr>amalgamate</corr>
</choice> naturally</l>
<l>the thought and the action. The audience, the
<choice>
<sic>shopr keeprs</sic>
<corr>shopkeepers</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>apprentices
<choice>
<sic>insoored</sic>
<corr>ensured</corr>
</choice> not
<choice>
<sic>relfection</sic>
<corr>reflection</corr>
</choice> <add hand="ms" place="above">blood [illeg.]</add>, but action,</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>movemnt</sic>
<corr>movement</corr>
</choice>. The play is still partly the work of the audience;</l>
<l>of the undifferentiated gluttonous word greedy mass.</l>
<l>It is inspired by the common voice, demanding great names,</l>
<l>simple
<choice>
<sic>outl nes</sic>
<corr>outlines</corr>
</choice>; clamour and
<choice>
<sic>virtory</sic>
<corr>victory</corr>
</choice> and death; not the
<choice>
<sic>singe</sic>
<corr>single</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>subtlety of one soul. <del>
<choice>
<sic>Refelction</sic>
<corr>Reflection</corr>
</choice> breaks off from</del></l>
<l><del hand="ms">
<choice>
<sic>ction</sic>
<corr>action</corr>
</choice>; there is no
<choice>
<sic>harml sing</sic>
<corr>[harmonising? harming?]</corr>
</choice> common speech.</del></l>
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