Ernest Rhys

 

 

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          At the Rhymers' Club
                    The Toast

 

5   Set fools unto their folly!
    Our folly is pure wit,
As 'twere the Muse turned jolly:
For poets' melancholy, –
    We will not think of it.
10    
As once Rare Ben and Herrick
    Set older Fleet Street mad,
With wit not esoteric,
And laughter that was lyric,
    And roystering rhymes and glad:
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    As they, we drink defiance
To-night to all but Rhyme,
And most of all to Science,
And all such skins of lions
    That hide the ass of time.
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    [2] To-night, to rhyme as they did
Were well, – ah, were it ours,
Who find the Muse degraded,
And changed, I fear, and faded,
    Her laurel crown and flowers.
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Ah rhymers, for that sorrow
    The more o'ertakes delight,
The more this madness borrow: –
If care be king to-morrow,
    To toast Queen Rhyme to-night.

 

 

 

 

Erstdruck und Druckvorlage

The Book of the Rhymers' Club.
London: Elkin Mathews 1892, S. 1-2.

Die Textwiedergabe erfolgt nach dem ersten Druck (Editionsrichtlinien).

URL: https://archive.org/details/bookofrhymersclu00rhym
PURL: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t1bk1fb46

 

 

 

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Frankel, Nicholas: "A Wreath for the Brows of Time": The Books of the Rhymers' Club as Material Texts. In: The Fin-de-Siècle Poem. English Literary Culture and the 1890s. Hrsg. von Joseph Bristow. Athens 2005, S. 131-157.

Genette, Gérard: Paratexte. Das Buch vom Beiwerk des Buches. Frankfurt a.M. 2001 (= suhrkamp taschenbuch wissenschaft, 1510).

Gymnich, Marion / Müller-Zettelmann, Eva: Metalyrik: Gattungsspezifische Besonderheiten, Formenspektrum und zentrale Funktionen. In: Metaisierung in Literatur und anderen Medien. Theoretische Grundlagen – Historische Perspektiven – Metagattungen – Funktionen. Hrsg. von Janine Hauthal u.a. Berlin u.a. 2007 (= spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature, 12), S. 65-91.

Marcus, Laura u.a. (Hrsg.): Late Victorian into Modern. Oxford 2016.

Plarr, Victor: The Rhymers' Club. In: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920. 45.4 (2002), S. 386-401.

Thacker, Andrew: London: Rhymers, Imagists, and Vorticists. In: The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms. Hrsg. von Peter Brooker u.a. Oxford 2010, S. 687-705.

 

 

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