1801: Leigh Hunt, The Palace of Pleasure; an Allegorical Poem. However, those names and terms which have been linked to Wikipedia or Wikisource are left blue. To knot, to twist, to range the vernal Bloom; But far is cast the Distaff, Spinning-Wheel, and Loom. 1767: Sir William Jones, The Seven Fountains, an Eastern Allegory, written in the Year 1767. 1800: Thomas Dermody, The Cave of Ignorance, in Two Cantos. To Noontide Shades incontinent he ran, Where purls the Brook with Sleep-inviting Sound; Or when Dan Sol to slope his Wheels began, Amid the Broom he bask'd him on the Ground, Where the wild Thyme and Camomil are found: There would he linger, till the latest Ray Of Light sat trembling on the Welkin's Bound: Then homeward through the twilight Shadows stray, Sauntring and slow. Ah! Search Metadata Search text contents Search TV news captions Search archived websites Advanced Search. It will certainly travel as far as Barbadoes. here lay the Hydropsy: Unwieldly Man! The fingering of the stanza, in the First Part of the Castle of Indolence especially, is nearly faultless: it is the inferiority of the lexicon that, whenever the subject admits of it, prevents Thomson from coming quite close to his master. Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton: "there is a Poem by Thompson, the Castle of Indolence, with some good stanzas in it" June 1748; Poems of Mr. Gray, ed. with soft Perdition please: Entangled deep in its enchanting Snares, The listening Heart forgot all Duties and all Cares. But chief, a while o lend us from the Tomb Those long-lost Friends for whom in Love we smart, And fill with pious Awe and joy-mixt Woe the Heart. 1827: John G. C. Brainard, The Money Diggers. 1805: Rev. Even Those whom Fame has lent her fairest Ray, The most renown'd of worthy Wights of Yore, From a base World at last have stolen away: So SCIPIO, to the soft Cumaean Shore Retiring, tasted joy he never knew before. The poem is a curious mixture of romantic melancholy and slippered mirth, of descriptive passages which rise into a clear Aeolian melody, and portraits of real people sketched in the laughter of a gentle caricature. Noté /5. Countess of Hertford to Lady Luxborough: "I conclude you will read Mr. Thomson's Castle of Indolence: it is after the manner of Spenser; but I think he does not always keep so close to his style as the author of the School-Mistress [Shenstone], whose name I never knew until you were so good as to inform me of it, — I believe the Castle of Indolence will afford you much entertainment; there are many pretty paintings in it; but I think the wizard song deserves a preference: 'He needs no muse who dictates from the heart'" 15 May 1748; in Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05) 3:263. A Fragment. 1750: Francis Garden, On Idleness: from the First Book of Spencer's Fairy Queen. Written in Imitation of Speuser. Wak'd by the Croud, slow from his Bench arose A comely full-spred Porter, swoln with Sleep: His calm, broad, thoughtless Aspect breath'd Repose; And in sweet Torpor he was plunged deep, Ne could himself from ceaseless Yawning keep; While o'er his Eyes the drowsy Liquor ran, Through which his half-wak'd Soul would faintly peep. In lowly Dale, fast by a River's Side, With woody Hill o'er Hill encompass'd round, A most enchanting Wizard did abide, Than whom a Fiend more fell is no where found. 1797: Rev. Leigh Hunt, who imitates Thomson in his youthful "The Palace of Pleasure," is one of the few critics who has found something positive to say about the second canto: "We resent the termination of our pleasures, and look upon the reforming knight as a dull and meddling fellow. THOMSON'S CASTLE OF INDOLENCE: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION, 1744: [Salute to Spenser in The Seasons.]. The opening stanzas are more like the work of Keats than any other verse which the eighteenth century has given us, and in their music there is less of the dull undertone of the conventional manner of the age than anywhere else, except in the finest lines of Gray and Collins. It was a Fountain of Nepenthe rare: Whence, as Dan HOMER sings, huge Pleasaunce grew, And sweet Oblivion of vile earthly Care; Fair gladsome waking Thoughts, and joyous Dreams more fair. Or are you sportive — Bid the Morn of Youth Rise to new Light, and beam afresh the Days Of Innocence, Simplicity, and Truth; To Cares estrang'd, and Manhood's thorny Ways. Preview this book » What people are saying - Write a review. The Castle of Indolence served as a reintroduction of Spenserian stanza, and inspired other poets, including Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Washington Irving and John Keats. Then taking his black Staff he call'd his Man, And rous'd himself as much as rouse himself he can. Good Lord! Join'd to the Prattle of the purling Rills, Were heard the lowing Herds along the Vale, And Flocks loud-bleating from the distant Hills, And vacant Shepherds piping in the Dale; And now and then sweet Philomel would wail, Or Stock-Doves plain amid the Forest deep, That drowsy rustled to the sighing Gale; And still a Coil the Grashopper did keep: Yet all these Sounds yblent inclined all to Sleep. 1802: William Wordsworth, Stanzas written in my Pocket-Copy of Thomson's Castle of Indolence. Castle of Indolence. The inequality of the second part of the Castle of Indolence is known and acknowledged; yet one cause of this is perhaps the finished perfection of the first. It resembles the well-known air of pastoral simplicity, to which all the skill of an inventive master, could not furnish a second. Oliver Elton: "Some verses of the Castle of Indolence might go into the Faerie Queene, and would hardly be known for changelings. To number up the Thousands dwelling here, An useless were, and eke an endless Task: From Kings, and Those who at the Helm appear, To Gipsies brown in Summer-Glades who bask. 1824: Rev. 1767: William Julius Mickle, The Concubine: a Poem. It is I think a very pretty Poem, and also a good Imitation of Spenser; which latter Circumstance is the more remarkable, as Mr. Thomson's Diction was not reckon'd the most simple. Written in imitation of Spenser. Or should they a vain Shew of Work assume, Alas! Ah me! by Edmund Blunden. So had he passed many a Day. Sign up for free; Log in; The seasons; with The castle of indolence Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. O mortal Man, who livest here by Toil, Do not complain of this thy hard Estate; That like an Emmet thou must ever moil, Is a sad Sentence of an ancient Date: And, certes, there is for it Reason great; For, though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail, 1775: John Tait, The Land of Liberty, an Allegorical Poem. Those Men, those wretched Men! Soft Quilts on Quilts, on Carpets Carpets spread, And Couches stretch around in seemly Band; And endless Pillows rise to prop the Head; So that each spacious Room was one full-swelling Bed. The second canto loses quality a little, not because it is Augustan, but because it drops one of the Augustan elements — the enlivening sly satire. Noté /5. what can it be? Here Lethargy, with deadly Sleep opprest, Stretch'd on his Back a mighty Lubbard lay, Heaving his Sides, and snored Night and Day; To stir him from his Traunce it was not eath, And his half-open'd Eyne he shut strait way: He led, I wot, the softest Way to Death, And taught withouten Pain and Strife to yield the Breath. James Thomson. The Castle Of Indolence Poem by James Thomson.The castle hight of Indolence, And its false luxury; Where for a little time, alas! And all this is good poetry. 1788: Gavin Turnbull, The Bard, a Poem; in the Manner of Spencer. The Castle of Indolence: An Allegorical Poem. But sure it is, was ne'er a subtler Band Than these same guileful Angel-seeming Sprights, Who thus in Dreams, voluptuous, soft, and bland, Pour'd all th' Arabian Heaven upon our Nights, And bless'd them oft besides with more refin'd Delights. It certainly contains as good poetry as any he wrote; and the tone of Spenser is charmingly imitated, with an arch but delighted reverence" Selections from English Authors, in Works (1854) 3:14, 15. For why? The Landskip such, inspiring perfect Ease, Where INDOLENCE (for so the Wizard hight) Close-hid his Castle mid embowering Trees, That half shut out the Beams of Phoebus bright, And made a Kind of checker'd Day and Night. Amid the Groves you may indulge the Muse, Or tend the Blooms, and deck the vernal Year; Or softly stealing, with your watry Gear, Along the Brooks, the crimson-spotted Fry You may delude: The whilst, amus'd, you hear Now the hoarse Stream, and now the Zephyr's Sigh, Attuned to the Birds, and woodland Melody. As when in Prime of June a burnish'd Fly, Sprung from the Meads, o'er which he sweeps along, Chear'd by the breathing Bloom and vital Sky, Tunes up amid these airy Halls his Song, Soothing at first the gay reposing Throng: And oft he sips their Bowl; or nearly drown'd, He, thence recovering, drives their Beds among, And scares their tender Sleep, with Trump profound; Then out again he flies, to wing his mazy Round. New Monthly Magazine: "The Castle of Indolence has never been so popular as his Seasons, doubtless because of its allegory; but, as a poetical composition, it is as much superior to the other poems of Thomson as the Schoolmistress of Shenstone is to the rest of his meagre and uninteresting performances" 11 (May 1819) 327. 1826: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Spenserian Stanzas on a Boy of Three Years Old. Fast by her Side a listless Maiden pin'd, With aching Head, and squeamish Heart-Burnings; Pale, bloated, cold, she seem'd to hate Mankind, Yet lov'd in Secret all forbidden Things. I who have spent my Nights and nightly Days, In this Soul-deadening Place, loose-loitering? 1771: Henry Mackenzie, The Old Batchelor. Evoke the sacred Shades of Greece and Rome, And let them Virtue with a Look impart! Here you a Muckworm of the Town might see, At his dull Desk, amid his Legers stall'd, Eat up with carking Care and Penurie; Most like to Carcase parch'd on Gallow-Tree. "The Best of Men have ever lov'd Repose: They hate to mingle in the filthy Fray; Where the Soul sowrs, and gradual Rancour grows, Imbitter'd more from peevish Day to Day. Industry triumphs over idleness in an innovative turn on the house poem genre. LONDON: Printed for A. MILLAR, over against Catherine-street, in the Strand. According to the Nuttall Encyclopedia, the Castle of Indolence is "a place in which the dwellers live amid luxurious delights, to the enervation of soul and body." 1742: Rev. When this the watchful wicked Wizard saw, With sudden Spring he leap'd upon them strait; And soon as touch'd by his unhallow'd Paw, They found themselves within the cursed Gate; Full hard to be repass'd, like That of Fate. Written in imitation of Spenser. the wretched Thrall Of bitter-dropping Sweat, of sweltry Pain, Of Cares that eat away thy Heart with Gall, And of the Vices, an inhuman Train, That all proceed from savage Thirst of Gain: For when hard-hearted Interest first began To poison Earth, Astraea left the Plain; Guile, Violence, and Murder seiz'd on Man; And, for soft milky Streams, with Blood and Rivers ran. The Castle of Indolence served as a reintroduction of Spenserian stanza, and inspired other poets, including Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Washington Irving and John Keats. Le Château d'Indolence [N 1], poème allégorique, écrit en imitation de Spenser (The Castle of Indolence, An Allegorical Poem, Written in imitation of Spenser en anglais) est un poème de James Thomson (1700-1748) paru en 1748. From Mead to Mead with gentle Wing to stray, From Flower to Flower on balmy Gales to fly, Is all she has to do beneath the radiant Sky. it checks no Vein, But every flowing Limb in Pleasure drowns, And heightens Ease with Grace. "But if a little Exercise you chuse, Some Zest for Ease, 'tis not forbidden here. 1758: Anonymous, [Additional Stanza for the Castle of Indolence]. The poem is written in stanzas of nine lines apiece, with an ab/ab/bc/bc/c rhyming scheme (Spenserian stanza) and with five accented syllables per line (iambic pentameter), except every ninth line, which receives six (Alexandrine hexameter). Liberty ; The castle of indolence, and other poems This edition was published in 1986 by Clarendon in Oxford. A Place here was, deep, dreary, under Ground; Where still our Inmates, when unpleasing grown, Diseas'd, and loathsome, privily were thrown. [pp. Written in Imitation of Spenser. The castle of indolence: an allegorical poem. It should not be confused with f. Because of the sheer volume of archaisms and obsolete terminology in this work, such words have been linked to Wiktionary in grey. Percival Stockdale: "It is, indeed, a masterpiece of poetry; it contains an infinite variety of entertainment, and instruction. The text presented here makes use of the long ess (ſ) to preserve Thomson's original orthography. That is, his Castle of Indolence: a poem which has higher beauties than the Seasons, without any of the faults which disgrace that work; tho' the conclusion even of this is most absurd, and unhappy; and could never have occurred to a writer of taste except in a frightful dream" Letters of Literature (1785) 65. let us instant go, O'erturn his Bowers, and lay his Castle low! push'd up to Power, and crown'd their Cares, In comes another Set, and kicketh them down Stairs. No sooner Lucifer recalls Affairs, Than forth they various rush in mighty Fret; When, lo! You have an apartment in it as a night pensioner; which you may remember I filled up for you during our delightful party at North End" 1748; Goodhugh, The English Gentleman's Library Manual (1827) 267. He ceas'd. [Sir Martyn.]. Canto I. Sometimes the Pencil, in cool airy Halls, Bade the gay Bloom of Vernal Landskips rise, Or Autumn's vary'd Shades imbrown the Walls: Now the black Tempest strikes the astonish'd Eyes; Now down the Steep the flashing Torrent flies; The trembling Sun now plays o'er Ocean blue, And now rude Mountains frown amid the Skies; Whate'er Lorrain light-touch'd with softening Hue, Or savage Rosa dash'd, or learned Poussin drew. 1819: John Keats, [Stanzas to Charles Armitage Brown.]. to heap up Estate, Losing the Days you see beneath the Sun; When, sudden, comes blind unrelenting Fate, And gives th' untasted Portion you have won, With ruthless Toil, and many a Wretch undone, To Those who mock you gone to Pluto's Reign, There with sad Ghosts to pine, and Shadows dun: But sure it is of Vanities most vain, To toil for what you here untoiling may obtain." And every where huge cover'd Tables stood, With Wines high-flavour'd and rich Viands crown'd; Whatever sprightly juice or tasteful Food On the green Bosom of this Earth are found, And all old Ocean genders in his Round: Some Hand unseen These silently display'd, Even undemanded, by a Sign or Sound; You need but wish, and, instantly obey'd, Fair-rang'd the Dishes rose, and thick the Glasses play'd. Edition Notes Series Oxford English texts Other Titles Liberty, Castle of indolence, and other poems. The Castle hight of Indolence, And its false Luxury; Where for a little Time, alas! Such the gay Splendor, the luxurious State, Of Caliphs old, who on the Tygris' Shore, In mighty Bagdat, populous and great, Held their bright Court, where was of Ladies store; And Verse, Love, Music still the Garland wore: When Sleep was coy, the Bard, in Waiting there, Chear'd the lone Midnight with the Muse's Lore; Composing Music bade his Dreams be fair, And Music lent new Gladness to the Morning Air. Those pleas'd the most, where, by a cunning Hand, Depeinted was the Patriarchal Age; What Time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee Land, And pastur'd on from verdant Stage to Stage, Where Fields and Fountains fresh could best engage. And here the Tertian shakes his chilling Wings; The sleepless Gout here counts the crowing Cocks, A Wolf now gnaws him, now a Serpent stings; Whilst Apoplexy cramm'd Intemperance knocks Down to the Ground at once, as Butcher felleth Ox. The castle of Indolence : an allegorical poem : Written in imitation of Spenser / By James Thompson. A Lady proud she was, of ancient Blood, Yet oft her Fear her Pride made crouchen low: She felt, or fancy'd in her fluttering Mood, All the Diseases which the Spittles know, And sought all Physic which the Shops bestow. 1748: [Additional Stanza for the Castle of Indolence]. Section 1. Corporate Author: Eighteenth Century Collections Online : Format: Online Book: Language: English: Published: London : printed for A. Millar, 1748. The poetry of the Castle of Indolence can only be described in poetry" Review of Stockdale, Lectures on the truly eminent English Poets; Edinburgh Review 12 (April 1808) 81. This last Article adds a Tenderness, tho' I must have read it with the Partiality of a Friend, had he been yet alive" 25 September 1748 in Letters, ed. By James Thomson. 1748: Dr. John Armstrong, An Imitation of Spenser, written at Mr. Thomson's Desire, to be inserted into The Castle of Indolence. The puzzling Sons of Party next appear'd, In dark Cabals and nightly Juntos met; And now they whisper'd close, now shrugging rear'd Th' important Shoulder; then, as if to get New Light, their twinkling Eyes were inward set. We liv'd right jollily. Was Nought around but Images of Rest: Sleep-soothing Groves, and quiet Lawns between; And flowery Beds that slumbrous Influence kest, From Poppies breath'd; and Beds of pleasant Green, Where never yet was creeping Creature seen. Near the Pavilions where we slept, still ran Soft-tinkling Streams, and dashing Waters fell, And sobbing Breezes sigh'd, and oft began (So work'd the Wizard) wintry Storms to swell, As Heaven and Earth they would together mell: At Doors and Windows, threatening, seem'd to call The Demons of the Tempest, growling fell, Yet the least Entrance found they none at all; Whence sweeter grew our Sleep, secure in massy Hall. 1796: Gregory Lewis Way, The Road to Paradise. The castle of indolence : an allegorical poem. Canto II. But what most shew'd the Vanity of Life, Was to behold the Nations all on Fire, In cruel Broils engag'd, and deadly Strife; Most Christian Kings, inflam'd by black Desire, With Honourable Ruffians in their Hire, Cause War to rage, and Blood around to pour: Of this sad Work when Each begins to tire, They sit them down just where they were before, Till for new Scenes of Woe Peace shall their Force restore. 1755: Cornelius Arnold, The Mirror. Of Limbs enormous, but withal unsound, Soft-swoln and pale. true Son of Virtue, come! Then would a splendid City rise to View, With Carts, and Cars, and Coaches roaring all: Wide-pour'd abroad behold the prowling Crew; See! Come on, my Muse, nor stoop to low Despair, Thou Imp of Jove, touch'd by celestial Fire! In Imitation of Spenser's Faery Queen. This companion volume to James Thomson's The Seasons completes the Oxford English Texts edition of his works and provides for the first time a critical text of all the poems with commentary. Thrice happy he! George Saintsbury: "His Spenserians, which, of all the numerous imitations of Spenser which amused their writers and annoyed Johnson at this time, are simply the only ones that come near the motion and the music of that Pactolus-Maeander, the Spenserian river of song. Where Indolence (for ſo the Wizard hight) Cloſe-hid his Caſtle mid embowering Trees, That half ſhut out the Beams of Phœbus bright, And made a Kind of checker'd Day and Night. 1762: Rev. Bibliographic Details; The castle of indolence : on poetry, poets, and poetasters / Thomas M. Disch. 1807: Rev. Not Titian's Pencil e'er could so array, So fleece with Clouds the pure Etherial Space; Ne could it e'er such melting Forms display, As loose on flowery Beds all languishingly lay. I waited, I believe three Months, to buy it in a smaller Edition; and the same Moment that I receiv'd the large one, I saw the octavo Edition advertis'd in the Papers. We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. how they dash along from Wall to Wall; At every Door, hark! Mark Akenside: "With Thomson's Castle of Indolence he [Akenside] was enraptured: among many stanzas, to which, in his own copy, he had put an emphatic mark of approbation, was that beginning, 'I care not fortune, what you me deny,' &c." Poetical Works of Akenside, ed. Here Freedom reign'd, without the least Alloy; Nor Gossip's Tale, nor ancient Maiden's Gall, Nor saintly Spleen durst murmur at our joy, And with envenom'd Tongue our Pleasures pall. Mean time the Master-Porter wide display'd Great Store of Caps, of Slippers, and of Gowns; Wherewith he Those who enter'd in, array'd; Loose, as the Breeze that plays along the Downs, And waves the Summer-Woods when Evening frowns. The Castle of Indolence is a collection of prolific cross-genre writer Thomas M. Disch's reviews and musings on poetry and the business of poetry, which is today mainly operated by academia (or as I like to call it, Creative Writing, Inc.) Few Americans today care much about contemporary poetry, and Disch puts the blame squarely on the university network and its policies of schmooze and positive, senseless … Now rising Love they fan'd; now pleasing Dole They breath'd, in tender Musings, through the Heart; And now a graver sacred Strain they stole, As when Seraphic Hands an Hymn impart: Wild warbling Nature all, above the Reach of Art! Comes fluttering forth a gaudy spendthrift Heir, All glossy gay, enamel'd all with Gold, The silly Tenant of the Summer-Air. It consists of two cantos, of which the first describes the castle of the wizard Indolence, into which he entices weary pilgrims who sink into torpor amidst luxurious ease; the inmates, becoming diseased, are thrown into a dungeon to languish. Full in the Passage of the Vale, above, A sable, silent, solemn Forest stood; Where nought but shadowy Forms were seen to move, As Idless fancy'd in her dreaming Mood. I own I read it with partiality of the Author, as I have seen and lik'd the Man; as his Merit was but inequally recompenc'd; and as he is now dead. 0 Reviews . A pure ethereal Calm! "Here nought but Candour reigns, indulgent Ease, Good-natur'd Lounging, Sauntering up and down: They who are pleas'd themselves must always please; On Others' Ways they never squint a Frown, Nor heed what haps in Hamlet or in Town. Shortly before the wedding, however, Conrad is crushed to death by a gigantic helmet that falls on him from above. This companion volume to James Thomson's The Seasons completes the Oxford English Texts edition of his works and provides for the first time a critical text of all the poems with commentary. So this same limber Page to All performed It. A poem in Spenserian stanzas by J. Thomson (1700–48), published 1748. Of Vanity the Mirror This was call'd. Like Gilbert West's On the Abuse of Travelling (1739), another burlesque imitation of the Faerie Queene, the Castle of Indolence is a political allegory, in which the Enchanter can be taken as Sir Robert Walpole disarming the opposition with his blandishments. "No Cocks, with me, to rustic Labour call, From Village on to Village sounding clear; To tardy Swain no shrill-voic'd Matrons squall; No Dogs, no Babes, no Wives, to stun your Ear; No Hammers thump; no horrid Blacksmith sear, Ne noisy Tradesman your sweet Slumbers start, With Sounds that are a Misery to hear: But all is calm, as would delight the Heart Of Sybarite of old, all Nature, and all Art. "Come, dwell with us! Liberty The Castle Of Indolence And Other Poems C Oet T Oxford English Texts. One great Amusement of our Houshold was, In a huge crystal magic Globe to spy, Still as you turn'd it, all Things that do pass Upon this Ant-Hill Earth; where constantly Of Idly-busy Men the restless Fry Run bustling to and fro with foolish Haste, In search of Pleasures vain that from them fly, Or which obtain'd the Caitiffs dare not taste: When nothing is enjoy'd, can there be greater Waste? This page was last edited on 13 August 2015, at 06:52. From a letter to Patterson it appears that this poem was begun as early as 1733, and if Thomson had died at that time his poetical works might be as rich although much less copious than they now are, for The Castle of Indolence is of a very different quality from the leaden Liberty and the stolid bombastic dramas. Mean while, unceasing at the massy Gate, Beneath a spacious Palm, the wicked Wight Was plac'd; and to his Lute, of cruel Fate, And Labour harsh, complain'd, lamenting Man's Estate. 1804: Alexander Wilson, The Solitary Tutor. Not stronger were of old the Giant-Crew, Who sought to pull high Jove from regal State; Though feeble Wretch he seem'd, of sallow Hue: Certes, who bides his Grasp, will that Encounter rue. Nor be forgot a Tribe, who minded Nought (Old Inmates of the Place) but State-Affairs: They look'd, perdie, as if they deeply thought; And on their Brow sat every Nation's Cares. 1802: Rev. "With me, you need not rise at early Dawn, To pass the joyless Day in various Stounds: Or, louting low, on upstart Fortune fawn, And sell fair Honour for some paltry Pounds; Or through the City take your dirty Rounds, To cheat, and dun, and lye, and Visit pay, Now flattering base, now giving secret Wounds; Or proul in Courts of Law for human Prey, In venal Senate thieve, or rob on broad High-way. Find more information about: OCLC Number: 3382361: Description: xix, 80, [1] pages 18 cm: Responsibility: Introd. Notes by … the Castle hight of Indolence ] a Picture instant,! 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