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Ballades & Rhymes from Ballades in Blue China and Rhymes a la Mode

Chapter 110: FOOTNOTES.
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This varied collection gathers lyric and narrative poems written in and after medieval and classical forms, chiefly ballades and short rhymes, with some translations and imitations of older verse. The pieces move between playful satire and quiet melancholy, often celebrating books, collectors, and the pleasures of reading while meditating on loss, vanished places, seasonal change, love, and small domestic or travel scenes. Formal variety is prominent—villanelles, dizains, envoy-styled closings—and recurring motifs include antiquarian curiosities, literary reminiscence, and gentle mockery of fashions and follies, all framed by a fond, antiquarian tone and careful metrical control.

 

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FOOTNOTES.

[35]  Cf. “Suggestions for Academic Reorganization.”

[46]  The last three stanzas are by an eminent Anthropologist.

[48]  Thomas of Ercildoune.

[66]  A knavish publisher.

[88]  Vous y verrez, belle Julie,
Que ce chapeau tout maltraité
Fut, dans un instant de folie,
Par les Grâces même inventé.

‘À Julie.’  Essais en Prose et en Vers, par Joseph Lisle; Paris.  An. V. de la République.

[108]  “I have broken many a pane of glass marked Cruel Parthenissa,” says the aunt of Sophia Western in Tom Jones.

[194]  N.B.  There is only one veracious statement in this ballade, which must not be accepted as autobiographical.

[196]  These lines do not apply to Miss Annie P. (or Daisy) Miller, and her delightful sisters, Gades adituræ mecum, in the pocket edition of Mr. James’s novels, if ever I go to Gades.

[207]  Tonatiu, the Thunder Bird; well known to the Dacotahs and Zulus.

[208a]  The Hawk, in the myth of the Galinameros of Central California, lit up the Sun.

[208b]  Pundjel, the Eagle Hawk, is the demiurge and “culture-hero” of several Australian tribes.

[208c]  The Creation of Man is thus described by the Australians.

[209a]   In Andaman, Thlinkeet, Melanesian, and other myths, a Bird is the Prometheus Purphoros; in Normandy this part is played by the Wren.

[209b] Yehl: the Raven God of the Thlinkeets.

[210a] Indra stole Soma as a Hawk and as a Quail.  For Odin’s feat as a Bird, see Bragi’s Telling in the Younger Edda.

[210b] Pundjel, the Eagle Hawk, gave Australians their marriage laws.

[210c] Lubra, a woman; kobong, “totem;” or, to please Mr. Max Müller, “otem.”

[210d] The Crow was the Hawk’s rival.

[232]  Lycaon, the first werewolf.