User:Ottava Rima

I work with literature of all types, and I can read Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish. If someone needs any help in such subjects I will oblige where I can.

Authors that I have a significant amount of scholarship on to provide if needed: William Blake, Frances Burney, George Byron, T. S. Eliot, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, John Keats, John Milton, Samuel Richardson, Percy Shelley, Christopher Smart, Lawrence Sterne, Jonathan Swift, and William Butler Yeats. Feel free to ask for any information in any particular area for these individuals.

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Authors

Robert Lovelace Preparing to Abduct Clarissa Harlowe

1. Jonathan Swift - Drapier's Letters, Sermons of Jonathan Swift
2. Christopher Smart - Jubilate Agno, A Song to David, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Hymns for the Amusement of Children‎, The Hop-Garden, The Hilliad, Christopher Smart's asylum confinement, Hannah, Abimelech
3. John Keats - Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion, Letters

   John Keats's 1819 odes (Ode on a Grecian Urn,Ode on Indolence, Ode on Melancholy, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to Psyche, To Autumn)

4. John Milton - De Doctrina Christiana, Reception history, Religious views, Relationships, Poetic style, Early life, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes

   1645 Poems (Christ's Nativity, The Passion, Upon the Circumcision, Arcades, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso)

   Antiprelatical tracts (Of Reformation, Of Prelatical Episcopacy, Animadversions, Reason of Church-Government, Apology for Smectymnuus)

   Divorce tracts (Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Judgement of Martin Bucer, Tetrachordon, Colasterion)

   Political works (Tenure of Kings, Eikonoklastes, Defensio Secunda, Civil Power, Ready and Easy Way)

5. Samuel Johnson - A Dictionary of the English Language, Life of Mr Richard Savage‎, Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets‎, Letter to Chesterfield‎, Birmingham Journal (eighteenth century), Messiah, London, The Vanity of Human Wishes, Irene, The Plays of William Shakespeare (including Miscellanious Observations, Proposal, and Preface), Health, Early life, Ethical views, Literary criticism, Politics

   Accounts of Samuel Johnson (Life of Samuel Johnson, Thraliana, Life (1787), Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, A Biographical Sketch)

   

   Sarah Siddons

6. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Early life, Easter Holidays, Dura Navis, Songs of the Pixies, Pain: Composed in Sickness, Monody on the Death of Chatterton, On Receiving an Account, Lines Written at Shurton Bars, The Destruction of the Bastile, Lines on an Autumnal Evening, Religious Musings, To the River Otter, To Fortune, Ode on the Departing Year, On Quitting School, To a Young Ass, The Destiny of Nations, France: An Ode, The Fall of Robespierre (with Robert Southey), Hymn Before Sunrise

   Conversation poems (Dejection: An Ode, Fears in Solitude, Frost at Midnight, Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement, The Eolian Harp, The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, To William Wordsworth)

   Sonnets on Eminent Characters ("To Erskine", "To Burke", "To Priestley", "To Fayette", "To Kosciusko", "To Pitt", "To Bowles", "To Mrs Siddons", "To Godwin", "To Southey", "To Sheridan", "To Lord Stanhope")

7. Henry Fielding - Amelia, The Covent-Garden Journal‎

   Early plays (Love in Several Masques, The Temple Beau, The Author's Farce, Tom Thumb, Rape upon Rape, The Tragedy of Tragedies, The Letter Writers, The Welsh Opera, The Grub Street Opera, The Lottery, The Modern Husband, The Old Debauchees, The Covent-Garden Tragedy, and The Mock Doctor)

8. Samuel Richardson - The History of Sir Charles Grandison‎
9. Percy Bysshe Shelley - Prometheus Unbound, "Mont Blanc", "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
10. William Wordsworth - William Wordsworth's early life, The Matthew poems, We are Seven, Lucy Gray

    The Lucy poems ("Strange fits of passion have I known", "She dwelt among the untrodden ways", "I travelled among unknown men", "Three years she grew in sun and shower", and "A slumber did my spirit seal")

11. William Blake - Nebuchadnezzar, The Ghost of a Flea, Illustrations of On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, The French Revolution, A Vision of the Last Judgment, "The Mental Traveller", An Island in the Moon

    Prophetic works - Continental prophecies (America a Prophecy, Europe a Prophecy, The Song of Los), The Book of Urizen, The Book of Los, The Book of Ahania

    Characters - Los, Orc

12. William Hazlitt - Characters of Shakespear's Plays
13. T. S. Eliot - Four Quartets (Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding), Gerontion
14. Alfred Tennyson - Mariana, "The Deserted House", Oenone, The Lotos-Eaters, St Simeon Stylites, The Day-Dream, Sir Galahad, "Break, Break, Break"
15. Lawrence Sterne - Sermons of Lawrence Sterne
16. Richard Blackmore - Lorna Doone
17. Anthony Trollope - Irish Novels, Orley Farm
18. Leigh Hunt
19. Robert Southey - The Fall of Robespierre (with Samuel Coleridge), Joan of Arc, Madoc, Thalaba the Destroyer, Curse of Kehama, Roderick the Last of the Goths
20. William Harrison Ainsworth - Rookwood, Jack Sheppard, Guy Fawkes, The Tower of London, Old St. Paul's, The Miser's Daughter, Windsor Castle, St. James's
21. William Butler Yeats
22. Edmund Burke - Letters on a Regicide Peace
23. Adam Smith - Theory of Moral Sentiments
24. Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady Audley's Secret‎
25. William Molyneux
26. George Eliot - Middlemarch‎
27. Ludovico Ariosto - Orlando Furioso‎
28. Charlotte Lennox - The Female Quixote
29. Henry Mackenzie - The Man of Feeling
30. Jane Collier - An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable
31. George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron - Nicolo Giraud, George Gordon Byron's early life
32. John Millington Synge
33. Rudyard Kipling
34. Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
35. Ann Radcliffe
36. Boileau
37. Mark Twain - The Awful German Language

Others

Ada Lovelace

1. Printers - Benjamin Motte, Sr.‎, Benjamin Motte, John Harding (printer)
2. 18th century disputes: Actor Rebellion of 1733, Motte v. Faulkner‎, Paper War of 1752-1753‎
3. BLP - Rosalind Picard‎, Steve Windom, Irving Hexham‎ and Karla Poewe
4. List of journeys of Pope Benedict XVI‎
5. The Catholic University of America
6. Romantic poetry‎, Romanticism
7. Endymion (mythology)
8. Treaty of Tripoli‎
9. 18th century
10. Ada Lovelace
11. Criticism - Scrutiny, Donald Greene
12. St. John's Lodge, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
13. Painters/Illustrators - Bartolommeo Coriolano, William Britten, George Cruikshank (Artist and the Author)

Requests:

Poetry

A collection of my WikiPoetry.

On Picard

Queen Anne

Poetry:

• From here

To dance a dance, one must follow in turn

Iambic form, or will their partner go;

Stay with the beat or be you forced to yearn,

And crave after meaning! Will you say no?

Your form is brute, your words do only burn

Paltry readers, whose delicate minds so

Desiring beauty and all they will get

Is unpolished words saying only

- Ottava Rima (talk) 01:20, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

To wash some whites, to bleach the rest,

Quietly now, or they shall hear;

The topic long past, that awful pest

Why ever would one keep it near?

A quicker pace, a turn thats best

And words that shall confuse a seer:

The topic we can soon ignore,

Because wasn't it just a bore?

- Ottava Rima (talk)

Is that whisper heard I come near

Messenger of that coming night?

Sweet death's little brother none fear

And few of him would ever fright,

But he of course can make it clear

To silence words with his soft might.

And as the moon beckons me so

I'm 'fraid that I must stop and go.

- Ottava Rima (talk) 03:40, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia Unbound

• From here

Wikipedia Unbound

Of editors, partisans, and those

Of themselves only they care that I sing,

In times when issues not import, I suppose,

Take precedence over those who can bring

Great changes, just helpful; though we once chose

To make Verify and Civil our king,

But these great monarchs now apparent slain,

Leaving only Mischief and Discord reign.

And when editors continue their way,

Constant bicker and controversy stale,

I will tell things not attempted today:

The fight is pointless, the matter is pale,

(In compare with other pages I say)

So why join Frenzy, Whine, Complain and Rail?

By poor talents sufficient for the task

I will before all the matter unmask.

Most generous people (and those of less),

I beseech you to listen to my plea

And stop this redundant editing mess;

Thats all I want, all that ever can be,

Since circular fighting is all I see.

Does she matter, really? To you or me?

I think not. But she is a person, now,

And then why all of this struggle allow?

Simply I put, and simply it is now

To see that she is just a scientist,

But not, it seems, of research's sacred cow

A worshiper, of "fact" in its purest.

Instead she of faith and cynic allow

Doubt to exist; Really? Is this the gist?

A simple signature proves anything not

But causes problems, and thats what we got.

Stop your fighting, please go along your way!

One line, two lines, does it even matter?

What do you hope to prove now if you stay?

But of course, the attacks are to flatter

Opinions, this is clear as night and day.

Why not think of others, stop the clatter,

And go edit pages that dire need work

Instead of staying here to fight and lurk.

I tell you this (and I beseech you all!)

She doesn't matter, her import too low,

She can't harm to you bring, her power small,

Nor does she care of which way that you go

But only of her self and of how you call

Negative 'tention upon her page so;

Tis said, tis hurts, to be part of dispute

That seeks only to ruin one's repute.

Many are details left and details right

Fly around the page like mock angels warre,

Heavenly knights that are of Milton's sight,

And want to take this epic challenge more.

But does this prove your editing might

When in this page trapp'd by Drama's lure?

There is no reason found during this age

To claim such things ever increase a page.

But fight on ye will, oh how you care not!

So far, now, you continue on and on,

And, by you, shall this be poor Wiki's lot

To be cast aside for your egos fawn.

Are there none out there dismayed and distraught?

Oh Fate! Oh Fortune! Whichever you don,

Please free the abused from your horrid clutch.

How can my words really implore too much?

False warriors fight and rage upon the field,

Editing whatever they want and care

Without ever wanting to stop or yield

An inch of this ground that we all should share.

But Truth, though battered, away not yet sealed

Still guides us; sweet Beauty tries to prepare

A time and place when the fighting will stop,

When we will all be willing to co-op.

The time is soon here; the time has not past.

Now, lay down your arms and look at it clear

And witness the destruction that comes fast

From petty fighting. Don't you see? I fear

That few will realize, or come to at last,

There lacks a point. Wiki to us is dear,

So why don't we treat her well and show care

By stopping this fighting over split hair?

- Ottava Rima (talk) 13:40, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

A Defence

• From here.

A Defence

Childish games and childish fights, have spread 'round,

And bring forth those who merely want to play.

Of course, our hero would be called unsound,

By such who speak half truths, false claims, they say

That they are unique, and problems they found,

That are just mere phantoms; but he must pay.

And so it begins, more who do not care,

Poor Wikipedia they will not spare.

To many, the poor Lass is just a tool

For venting their rage or spreading their hate;

But must it be this way? Don't let it fool

You into thinking that it is our fate.

We can move on now, just follow the rule

And realize that they will never be sate.

People as these trouble to bring they must

But are their actions and claims really just?

No, is the answer, and no it must be,

Since there is nothing to claim for a ground,

Once you open your eyes and choose to see,

Everything here that's waiting to be found.

One who makes claims that all accounts are free

Of mention; And he only circles 'round

The same point, athough the proof contrary

Is given; his own mind merry.

And of the others, I will now proceed

To give account of their action and tell

How from that sacred truth they have receed.

The one he mocks, the one he tries to sell

A story of Verify not. This deed

He spread, edit made, and so pages fell

At his hand and inaccuracies spread

Until this place, this post, which it has led.

Now what can I say? Now what can be done?

Since Melodrama has reared its large head;

That awful beast is here to ruin fun

As it demands in earnest to be fed.

Please don't feed it! Kill it now! Or else none

Will be spared. I think that is enough said.

So shall I end; is it really too soon?

Nah, I say, but I shall conclude my tune.

Editor I am, a Writer you see,

Who spends all of his time with research much

And gives my findings to sacred Wiki.

Why all of this fuss? Why all of this such?

It is really more than what has to be,

And all this needs just a delicate touch.

So when there are those who rush to accuse,

It is poor Wiki who will surely lose.

- Ottava Rima, The Italian Rhyme, Ottava Rima (talk) 12:49, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Words Upon False Witness

• From here.

Words Upon False Witness

Do people care, do people think,

About their words and comments made?

Instead, from Lethe they drink

And propriety they will trade

For Chaos; the actions they link

Are false and baseless claims are laid

Of disruption that exists not -.

By wolves, with sheep no peace is sought.

No fun and games, no happy rhyme

Can come from these dry lips today;

An Oroondates of this time,

Accused falsely, and forced to pay

For an imaginary crime.

But even Truth, if I to lay

Her before you, made justly bare,

My reader would not feign to care

I am no Baptist, but this dance

Demanding my head lacks the charm

And allure of Salome’s stance.

All their words and actions bring harm,

And, like a doctor who would lance

A fest’ring blister on an arm,

They should be stopped before they complete

Their desired corrupting feat.

No martyr am I; victim true

Of circumstance and jealous rage.

Hungry wolves, they wish to pursue

Anyone that would add to the page

(A line of opinion or two

That contradicts they way they feel)

With such bitter and angry zeal.

What shall happen now? I know not,

But it is not that hard to see

That none will care, that none have sought

To look close or to defend me.

No “truth will out”, falsity was bought,

Although its was plain as can be.

All that’s left is my lonely word;

It shall go without being heard.

- Ottava Rima (talk) 16:06, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Obligatory Rhyme

• From here.

Oh muse, oblige me when you may

A rhyme, such a thing I do need

Now, more than anything this day;

Of course I say this, with such speed

That can make heads spin, but please say

The words, the tune, and do the deed.

But alas, she will not tonight.

Wherefore now, this will surely bite.

Ottava Rima (talk) 03:03, 4 December 2008 (UTC)