Libertad Digital. "Los separatistas quieren más ayuda del Estado para su golpe de estado." Libertad Digital 10 Oct. 2016.* http://www.libertaddigital.com/opinion/editorial/los-separatistas-quieren-mas-ayuda-del-estado-para-su-golpe-de-estado-80248/ 2016
PS: Y en efecto les dió Rajoy el dinero, y en efecto ha habido un golpe de Estado, y lo sigue habiendo.
Más calidad-precio
Publicado en Filología Inglesa. com. José Ángel García Landa
Precios de los estudios de Filología Inglesa en las distintas universidades españolas, cortesía de la Guía de Universidades de Consumer-Eroski. Van desde los 450 euros para el primer curso en las universidades de las Canarias, hasta los 9.333 euros por el primercurso en una (doble) titulación de Filología Inglesa y Turismo de la Universidad Antonio de Nebrija. Toma ya. Más les valdrá que aprendan veinte veces más que en Canarias, que si no... (Aunque me sospecho que la differentia specifica estará en salir ya colocado o no, o sea no tanto en el saber adquirido sino en el savoir faire).
Y hay muchísimos datos interesantes comparativos en la sección "Qué universidad es mejor en...?" - en presupuesto, en número de alumnos, proporción de doctores, tesis leídas, proyectos, etc. La mía, pues por en medio, o más hacia arriba en unas cosas que en otras. Así pues, una página muy interesante para los universitarios, y a la que llego vía Reflexiones e Irreflexiones.
Which Is to Be Master, Part 2
Publicado en Departamento. com. José Ángel García Landa
O: relación calidad-precio entre los másteres de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Echando un vistazo por la web de nuestra Facultad, se observa este panorama en cuanto a másteres y postgrados varios (sin contar los programas de doctorado).
Siempre hay clases. Para clase de classicus, los másteres oficiales. Según el impreso de matrícula de másteres oficiales hay tres categorías de precios. En el Máster de Sistemas de Información Geográfica y Teledetección el crédito va a a 28 euros; está en la categoría Loewe de los másteres de nuestra universidad. Lo mismo el máster de Gestión del Patrimonio. Estudios Ingleses es el más postgrado más barato, en categoría aparte, a 16 euros por crédito. La relación calidad-precio aquí funciona al revés que en el llamado mundo "real", porque este máster se basaba en el programa de doctorado con mención de calidad de nuestro departamento, en el que yo venía participando... hasta que me echaron a mí y a los que no tenemos suficiente calidad (oséase, calidad monetaria, proyectos de investigación financiados). Este máster viene a salir por 960 euros, y es así el más baratito de los que hay en la Facultad. Claro que eso puede tenerse muy a gala, suponiendo que sea "el más financiado" por la comunidad y el que menos tenga que ser financiado por el propio alumno... eso en una lectura optimista. Parecen cruzarse aquí distintas lógicas de mercado...
...como demuestra el hecho de que es por los estudios menos oficiales (infra classem) por los que puede cobrarse las mayores cantidades. Así, el Máster en Comunicación y Periodismo (estudio propio no oficial) cuesta 5950 euros, y renunció al parecer a convertirse en máster oficial porque la comunidad no ofrecía financiación suficiente como para equilibrar esa jugosa matrícula y permitir pagar a todos los invitados externos. Caso ligeramente distinto es el de otro máster/estudio propio en el que sí participa nuestro departamento, el Máster en Traducción de Textos Especializados: 2950 euros, y éste en cambio no ha conseguido (creo) la categoría de oficial a la que aspiraba este próximo año. Claro que es un novato: este curso se estrena como estudio propio, y miren si baja los precios con respecto al de Comunicación y Periodismo... ya se sabe, la competencia hace pujar hacia abajo. Hay un Diploma (que ni máster) en Protocolo y Ceremonial que cuesta la friolera de 2250 euros. Claro, esto es para ir a sitios elegantes. Y un Postgrado en técnicas cartográficas y de campo (este es más de botas y vaqueros) que cuesta 2400 euros. Casi nada, estos alternativos y extraoficiales; es la parte de nuestra universidad pública que es una universidad privada.
¿La clase más baja? La de los que no llegan a nada, como nuestro propuesto máster en "Lingüística aplicada del inglés para profesionales". No es extraño que recibiese especial varapalo (según he oído) de los profesores de Lingüística (General e Hispánica) en la Comisión de Postgrado de la Facultad... a quién se le ocurre pedir la creación de un postgrado aparte para él, en lugar de integrarlo en el postgrado de Estudios Ingleses, cosa que hubiera sido más lógica y seguramente menos inquietante para nuestros colegas de Lingüística. Por cierto, por cierto: que en la web de la facultad aparece erróneamente el máster con el título que hubiese querido tener y no tiene, "Estudios Ingleses", cuando en realidad ese es el nombre del postgrado, y el máster se llama "Estudios Textuales y Culturales en Lengua Inglesa". Que lo corrijan, por favor.
También veo que aparece por fin una sección de noticias/actualidad en esa página web de la facultad… a ver si prospera. Nos podían anunciar, por ejemplo, cuántos alumnos se han matriculado en cada máster. Que tenemos una página web incomunicativa, emblema de una facultad un tanto incomunicada consigo misma. Le podían abrir un blog (oficial, o, casi mejor, alternativo).
JoseAngel: Autojustificaciones: La disonancia cognitiva en la manipulación de grupos: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309565165
31 Oct 16, 20:19 JoseAngel: El Congreso pare un ratón: https://soundcloud.com/cesarvidal/programa-completo-311016 |
31 Oct 16, 20:08 JoseAngel: Retroposting & Retroprospecting (Blog de notas de octubre de 2016): http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/z16-10.html |
31 Oct 16, 19:34 JoseAngel: En el cementerio de Torrero, visitando la tumba de José Penas. |
31 Oct 16, 16:52 JoseAngel: Hay universos para lelos, pero están en éste. |
31 Oct 16, 14:16 JoseAngel: Viendo Doctor Strange con los chavales: http://www.redaragon.com/ocio/cine/pelicula.asp?id=31513#trailer |
31 Oct 16, 14:04 JoseAngel: Rajoy es investido presidente: http://esradio.libertaddigital.com/fonoteca/2016-10-30/sin-complejos-completo-30102016-rajoy-es-investido-presidente-106648.html |
31 Oct 16, 13:46 JoseAngel: Sigo mirando la vida pasar: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/103105-miro-la-vida-pasar-4-y-5-.php |
31 Oct 16, 13:31 JoseAngel: Que no gusto: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/103104-que-no-gusto.php |
31 Oct 16, 13:20 JoseAngel: Hace 1 año: Publicando donde todo el mundo: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/103103-publicando-donde-todo-el-mundo.php |
31 Oct 16, 13:19 JoseAngel: Jose Angel Garcia Landa Author Rank is 1,541 out of 322,735 |
31 Oct 16, 11:23 JoseAngel: Jazz at the White House 2016: https://youtu.be/9upB10NUgJ8 |
30 Oct 16, 20:14 JoseAngel: Los grandes retos del segundo gobierno Rajoy: http://www.libertaddigital.com/opinion/editorial/los-grandes-retos-del-segundo-gobierno-rajoy-80439/ |
30 Oct 16, 13:49 JoseAngel: Clausura del XIII curso de Filosofía de Santo Domingo de la Calzada: https://youtu.be/PunUQ5VC9XA |
30 Oct 16, 08:02 JoseAngel: Continúa (no estrena) Rajoy. Y continuará, cómo no, la subvención a la traición y a la sedición. |
30 Oct 16, 07:55 JoseAngel: Arqueología del lenguaje y del penasmiento: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/103006-arqueologia-del-lenguaje-y-del-pensamiento.php |
29 Oct 16, 21:25 JoseAngel: Un blog con más fotos que el mío. Y mejores: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/ |
29 Oct 16, 13:49 JoseAngel: 'Autojustificaciones: La disonancia cognitiva en la manipulación de grupos' en @academia http://www.academia.edu/29519418 |
29 Oct 16, 12:08 JoseAngel: Cartagena ye nazión: http://www.libertaddigital.com/opinion/pablo-molina/cartagena-nacion-80430/ |
29 Oct 16, 12:06 JoseAngel: Una sábana de letra pequeña de instrucciones para un mísero ratón de ordenador. ¡El parto de las montañas! |
29 Oct 16, 05:57 JoseAngel: De la experiencia al lenguaje: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/102912-de-la-experiencia-al-lenguaje.php |
29 Oct 16, 05:30 JoseAngel: Golpe de Estado CON ARMAS: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/102907-golpe-de-estado-con-armas.php |
29 Oct 16, 05:19 JoseAngel: The Composition of Remorse: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/102905-the-composition-of-remorse.php |
29 Oct 16, 05:14 JoseAngel: Items and Generalizations at work: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/102903-items-and-generalizations-at-work.php |
29 Oct 16, 05:09 JoseAngel: Style and Patterns of Blending: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/102902-style-and-patterns-of-blending.php |
29 Oct 16, 04:22 JoseAngel: John Perry, The Great Detour 1: Frege's Identity Crisis: http://savoirs.ens.fr//expose.php?id=2647 |
28 Oct 16, 23:18 JoseAngel: Mi bibliografía de Horace Walpole" http://studylib.net/doc/7865796/from-a-bibliography-of-literary-theory--criticism-and-phi... |
28 Oct 16, 21:33 JoseAngel: El Papa Francisco bendice a Maduro: https://soundcloud.com/cesarvidal/programa-completo-281016 |
28 Oct 16, 21:25 JoseAngel: La enferma y falsaria sociedad vasca: http://www.libertaddigital.com/cultura/2016-10-26/inaki-arteta-57-anos-80384/ |
28 Oct 16, 19:21 JoseAngel: Entrenando el tren de las ideas: http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/10/entrenando-el-tren-de-las-ideas.html |
28 Oct 16, 19:00 JoseAngel: Sobre la evolución humana, Juan Luis Arsuaga, y el enigma de la Esfinge: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/102810-sobre-la-evolucion-humana-juan-luis-arsuaga-y-el-enigma-de-la-esfinge.php |
28 Oct 16, 07:23 JoseAngel: En tiempos de los cíclopes: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/102806-en-tiempos-de-los-ciclopes-in-the-times-of-the-cyclopes.php |
27 Oct 16, 23:48 JoseAngel: Do we see the world as it is? We live in a kind of computer interface. https://youtu.be/oYp5XuGYqqY |
27 Oct 16, 23:04 JoseAngel: Jose Angel Garcia Landa Author Rank is 1,543 out of 322,332 |
27 Oct 16, 21:18 JoseAngel: La estupidez del gobierno de Aragón: https://www.cesarvidal.com/index.php/Podcast/escuchar-podcast/programa_completo_27_10_16 |
27 Oct 16, 19:18 JoseAngel: Joan Fontcuberta habla sobre fotografía: http://www.march.es/conferencias/anteriores/voz.aspx?p1=100835&l=1 |
27 Oct 16, 18:37 JoseAngel: Entrevista con Joan Fontcuberta: http://www.march.es/conferencias/anteriores/voz.aspx?p1=100835&l=1 |
27 Oct 16, 09:32 JoseAngel: The Meaning of Bob Dylan’s Silence http://nyti.ms/2dIGdjB |
27 Oct 16, 09:00 JoseAngel: Conferencias sobre Gracián de Aurora Egido: http://www.march.es/conferencias/anteriores/voz.aspx?p1=100843&l=1 |
27 Oct 16, 08:34 JoseAngel: Se va a Malibú y no a defender su postura en el comité PSOE, vuelve y dice "Os he echado de menos". Nivelazo de país. Señor llévame pronto. |
26 Oct 16, 21:04 JoseAngel: Una pequeña teoría sobre elorigen del lenguaje: https://www.academia.edu/29444168/ |
26 Oct 16, 18:53 JoseAngel: Lo del "derecho a paro académico" no sé si está en la Constitución, ni en la ley de huelga que no existe: http://prensa.unizar.es/noticias/1610/161026_z0_H_4.pdf |
26 Oct 16, 18:37 JoseAngel: Quién manda en la huelga: http://www.ibercampus.es/quien-manda-en-la-huelga-33856.htm |
26 Oct 16, 18:03 JoseAngel: Eustoquio Molina: "Calentamiento global causará colapso" http://prensa.unizar.es/noticias/1610/161026_z0_Molina2016ElUniversal.pdf |
26 Oct 16, 17:35 JoseAngel: Again most read in Linguistics, Aesthetics, my institution... https://www.flickr.com/photos/garciala/30581384835/in/photostream/ |
26 Oct 16, 08:24 JoseAngel: La Teoría de la Mente y el receptor implícito: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/102604-la-teoria-de-la-mente-y-el-receptor-implicito.php |
26 Oct 16, 08:14 JoseAngel: Recuerdos de la guerra contra Iraq: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/102601-recuerdos-de-la-guerra-contra-iraq.php |
JoseAngel: Quiénes son los 'golpistas' http://www.libertaddigital.com/opinion/editorial/la-calle-contra-las-urnas-80401/
25 Oct 16, 22:11 JoseAngel: Los favoritismos de Hacienda con los mangantes y defraudadores: https://www.cesarvidal.com/index.php/Podcast/escuchar-podcast/programa_completo_25_10_16 |
25 Oct 16, 18:28 JoseAngel: Sixty is the new Forty: http://www.libertaddigital.com/fotos/yazemeenah-rossi-estrella-instagram-chic-1012406/ |
25 Oct 16, 16:39 JoseAngel: Santiago Navajas, El Estado y la Ravolución: http://www.vozpopuli.com/entre_escila_y_caribdis/revolucion_7_965673426.html |
25 Oct 16, 14:27 JoseAngel: Paco López Barrio, de LOS FILOLOGOS SOMOS NECESARIOS defiende públicamente mi expulsión "no por motivos políticos": |
25 Oct 16, 12:04 JoseAngel: 950 años de la batalla de Hastings: http://www.libertaddigital.com/fotos/950-aniversario-batalla-hastings-cultura-1012416/ |
25 Oct 16, 12:00 JoseAngel: Convocan los estudiantes concentración de protesta por el retraso en las obras de nuestra Facultad, mañana a las 11,30 en las escaleras de Filosofía y Letras. |
25 Oct 16, 11:56 JoseAngel: Exámenes de Cambridge en Zaragoza en B-est: https://www.bestexamszaragoza.com/ |
25 Oct 16, 07:12 JoseAngel: Pantallas terminológicas: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/102504-pantallas-terminologicas.php |
24 Oct 16, 23:50 JoseAngel: Shakespeare, el inagotable: http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/04/11/babelia/1460383983_701557.html |
24 Oct 16, 23:44 JoseAngel: Wagensberg reseña 'Homo Deus' de Harari: http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/10/19/babelia/1476869722_225744.html |
24 Oct 16, 22:40 JoseAngel: La traición del rey 'franquista': http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/102403-la-traicion-del-rey-franquista-.php |
24 Oct 16, 22:33 JoseAngel: David en el Balaitus: http://revirandoporlasnubes.blogspot.com.es/ |
24 Oct 16, 22:05 JoseAngel: Y minuto 40, sobre la sedición catalana. |
24 Oct 16, 21:15 JoseAngel: César Vidal sobre la decisión del PSOE: https://soundcloud.com/cesarvidal/programa-completo-241016 |
24 Oct 16, 20:53 JoseAngel: Oigan, que parece broma, pero según Homs Cataluña le ha declarado la guerra a España. Y el Rey recibiéndolo tan amable. Así nos va en España |
24 Oct 16, 19:42 JoseAngel: Sánchez Dragó entrevista (1978) a Gustavo Bueno: https://youtu.be/r6bMijQWAuQ |
24 Oct 16, 11:35 JoseAngel: Recibido (¡gracias!) R. G. Collingwood, EL ARTE Y LA IMAGINACIÓN, trad. Ricardo Miguel, Casimiro Libros, 2016 http://www.casimirolibros.es |
24 Oct 16, 11:18 JoseAngel: La Ronda de Boltaña en Broto 2016: https://youtu.be/QXBXe6Z0-MA |
23 Oct 16, 20:03 JoseAngel: Hey, cumplo más de 20.000 tweets y 100 "Me gusta". No es mala media (para mí): https://twitter.com/JoseAngelGLanda |
JoseAngel: In my experience, los vociferantes que llevan cruces gamadas y los que llevan cruces gamadas tachadas se parecen más de lo que deberían.
20 Oct 16, 21:53 JoseAngel: Jose Angel Garcia Landa Author Rank is 1,550 out of 321,807 |
20 Oct 16, 18:09 JoseAngel: Computers are not mammals: https://youtu.be/Lt7votAzI78 |
20 Oct 16, 17:59 JoseAngel: El Constitucional anula la prohibición de la tauromaquia en Cataluña: http://www.libertaddigital.com/espana/2016-10-20/el-constitucional-anula-la-prohibicion-de-los-toros-en-cataluna-1276584899/ |
20 Oct 16, 16:59 JoseAngel: Hoy elegimos en Consejo de departamento nueva directora, Dolores Herrero, en sustitución de la Dra. Penas. Enhorabuena y que le vaya igual de bien (o mejor if possible). |
20 Oct 16, 01:28 JoseAngel: MACBETH (BBC) https://youtu.be/SoApnvPJnY4 |
20 Oct 16, 01:23 JoseAngel: Ránking UZ, etc.: https://paper.li/JoseAngelGLanda/1411163489?edition_id=5c7d4710-9646-11e6-b7a6-0cc47a0d1605 |
19 Oct 16, 23:12 JoseAngel: PODEMOS y Coleta Morada alentar y apoyar el delito: http://esradio.libertaddigital.com/fonoteca/2016-10-19/federico-a-las-7-la-historia-del-suicidio-del-psoe-106239.html |
19 Oct 16, 21:53 JoseAngel: Estos mismos a Otegi lo vitorean, los que tanto hablan de cal viva. A ver si me lo aprendo: "Cal viva no, tiro en la nuca sí". |
19 Oct 16, 21:51 JoseAngel: Cuánto fascista / En launi versidad (encapuchado, digo). |
19 Oct 16, 19:04 JoseAngel: Contar y seguir el hilo: La trama que va de la técnica al texto —en @academia http://www.academia.edu/29271618 |
19 Oct 16, 18:00 JoseAngel: Entrevista con Pérez-Reverte sobre 'Falcó': http://www.elmundo.es/cultura/2016/10/19/58072587468aeb124e8b459c.html |
19 Oct 16, 09:44 JoseAngel: El más leído en Filosofía #flickr https://flic.kr/p/NdLx9r |
19 Oct 16, 09:20 JoseAngel: "Si me miro no soy nada. Pero anda que si me comparo..." |
19 Oct 16, 08:06 JoseAngel: La gestión de la realidad mediante la atención: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/101901-la-gestion-de-la-realidad-mediante-la-atencion-como-una-burbuja.php |
19 Oct 16, 00:22 JoseAngel: Jonathan Gottschall on the Dark Side of Storytellling: https://hbr.org/2016/10/theranos-and-the-dark-side-of-storytelling |
18 Oct 16, 13:15 JoseAngel: El miércoles 26 de octubre aparecerá en el HERALDO DE ARAGÓN una columna de Víctor Juan sobre el abuelo o bisabuelo Angel García Benedito, maestro de Escuer. |
18 Oct 16, 11:43 JoseAngel: En una lista de 'Manchester et Liverpool': https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL11QlUyBoJp21EPGcIQOrC2fO8vxVKR1i |
17 Oct 16, 23:57 JoseAngel: Searle, A Theory of Social Ontology: https://youtu.be/2XTwCGvO1T4 |
17 Oct 16, 23:10 JoseAngel: Me citan que cito el Jargon File: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File |
17 Oct 16, 22:57 JoseAngel: Susana Onega (Encyclopedia.com): http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/onega-susana-1948 |
17 Oct 16, 21:29 JoseAngel: Los podemitas, decididos a darnos la matraca con piquetes y disturbios. Aguántales, hala. Qué cruz de iluminados. http://www.elmundo.es/espana/2016/10/17/5805221eca47412f138b45bf.html |
17 Oct 16, 13:34 JoseAngel: Repugnante machismo, el de Podemos: http://www.libertaddigital.com/espana/2016-10-17/jimenez-losantos-responde-a-irene-montero-1276584632/ |
17 Oct 16, 07:08 JoseAngel: Los circuitos neurales de la consciencia: Modo offline' —en @academia http://www.academia.edu/29203511 |
17 Oct 16, 06:18 JoseAngel: "No tendría sentido la bronca del PSOE si ahora votasen no a Rajoy, vamos, sería un absurdo..." ¡Señores, no me sobreestimen al PSOE! |
17 Oct 16, 05:57 JoseAngel: El PSOE y la 'cuestión PSC' http://dlvr.it/MStmf6 |
16 Oct 16, 20:38 JoseAngel: Bondarenko & Baskin on Big History & Complexity: https://www.academia.edu/29174417/Big_History_Complexity_Theory_and_Life_in_a_Non-Linear_World |
16 Oct 16, 14:26 JoseAngel: Continúan los Pilares, aquí tenemos a la familia a comer (parte de ella). |
15 Oct 16, 21:43 JoseAngel: Los que dicen que Dylan no merece el premio Nobel: https://youtu.be/PDxPllkP0Mw |
15 Oct 16, 18:29 JoseAngel: Curso de doctorado sobre Intencionalidad y Narratividad: https://escueladoctorado.unizar.es/es/informacion-general-sobre-las-actividades-transversales-organizadas-por-la-escuela-de-doctorado-0 |
15 Oct 16, 15:00 JoseAngel: Efecto Baldwin en el género Homo: http://arqueologiacognitiva.blogspot.com.es/2016/10/efecto-baldwin-en-el-genero-homo.html |
15 Oct 16, 13:24 JoseAngel: Me apunto a impartir una lección en la Escuela de Doctorado: https://escueladoctorado.unizar.es/ |
15 Oct 16, 12:39 JoseAngel: Elvira Lindo, pro-Dylan: http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/10/14/actualidad/1476462691_121669.html |
15 Oct 16, 11:51 JoseAngel: Los corruptos están ahí porque los votáis y los seguís votando: http://esradio.libertaddigital.com/fonoteca/2016-10-15/noticias-correa-medio-con-los-ministerios-de-medio-ambiente-y-fomento-106118.html |
15 Oct 16, 06:40 JoseAngel: Más mafiadas de Mafo: http://esradio.libertaddigital.com/fonoteca/2016-10-14/tertulia-economica-el-banco-de-espana-advirtio-de-la-salida-a-bolsa-de-bankia-106112.html |
15 Oct 16, 02:12 JoseAngel: MAFO, culpable: http://www.libremercado.com/2016-10-14/editorial-mafo-culpable-80289/ |
15 Oct 16, 02:09 JoseAngel: La Deuda Histérica: http://www.libertaddigital.com/opinion/fray-josepho-y-monsieur-de-sans-foy/la-deuda-histerica-80285/ |
14 Oct 16, 20:24 JoseAngel: Dylan interview on Love & Theft & songs & business etc. https://youtu.be/o7MMfU-_bv4 |
14 Oct 16, 18:39 JoseAngel: Heterosexual Man couple first civil union for non-gays in Britain: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/14/heterosexual-couple-are-first-in-britain-to-become-civil-partners |
14 Oct 16, 17:34 JoseAngel: Innecesario filólogo: http://www.ibercampus.es/innecesario-filologo-33806.htm |
14 Oct 16, 17:19 JoseAngel: Bob Dylan en un concierto de hace una semana: https://youtu.be/ndetoHhxnsQ |
14 Oct 16, 16:41 JoseAngel: I'm on the news it seems: http://www.paypop.net/tag/jose-angel-garcia-landa |
14 Oct 16, 16:33 JoseAngel: Miro la vida pasar. Y luego, la sigo mirando: http://emusics.net/5bda13a/miro-la-vida-pasar-isaac-pecino-apocalipsis-tour-1718.html |
14 Oct 16, 16:26 JoseAngel: Jo, esto del premio Nobel a Dylan, ha causado horror como si se lo hubieran dado a Quasimodo. |
14 Oct 16, 13:21 JoseAngel: Ahora nos falta el otro vídeo, el de Aquiles y la tortuga: http://tv.libertaddigital.com/videos/2016-10-14/una-tortuga-gana-a-una-liebre-en-una-insolita-carrera-6058172.html |
14 Oct 16, 10:58 JoseAngel: Andrés Calamaro, "El Nobel cantado" http://www.abc.es/cultura/musica/abci-nobel-cantado-201610140259_noticia.html |
14 Oct 16, 07:17 JoseAngel: Aliados con los caníbales: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/101404-aliados-con-los-canibales.php |
13 Oct 16, 22:47 JoseAngel: Parece que a Luis Alberto de Cuenca no le han dado el Nobel: http://esradio.libertaddigital.com/fonoteca/2016-10-13/las-noticias-de-herrero-bob-dylan-premio-nobel-de-literatura-2016-106053.html |
13 Oct 16, 19:41 JoseAngel: Hühn, Peter. Facing Loss and Death: Narrative and Eventfulness in Lyric Poetry. (Narratologia, 55). Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2016. |
13 Oct 16, 18:04 JoseAngel: Jose Angel Garcia Landa Author Rank is 1,570 out of 321,317 |
13 Oct 16, 15:47 JoseAngel: Bob Dylan, Premio Nobel de Literatura 2016: http://www.libertaddigital.com/cultura/libros/2016-10-13/bob-dylan-premio-nobel-de-literatura-2016-1276584428/ |
13 Oct 16, 12:45 JoseAngel: Otras elecciones departamentales. Candidatura única (y por tanto futura directora): Mª Dolores Herrero. |
13 Oct 16, 07:56 JoseAngel: Los circuitos neurales de la consciencia: Modo offline: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/101303-los-circuitos-neurales-de-la-consciencia-modo-offline.php |
13 Oct 16, 00:22 JoseAngel: La rebeldía de los ayuntamientos independentistas: http://esradio.libertaddigital.com/fonoteca/2016-10-12/editorial-luis-herrero-la-rebeldia-de-los-ayuntamientos-independentistas-106001.html |
13 Oct 16, 00:13 JoseAngel: Hágase (a sí misma) la Tierra: Sobre el orden autogenerado: https://www.academia.edu/29108574/ |
12 Oct 16, 22:15 JoseAngel: Mark B. Turner: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1058129 |
12 Oct 16, 20:53 JoseAngel: Los sediciosos traidores que incumplen su juramento a la Constitución deberían ser expulsados de su puesto YA: al trullo, y que corra lista. |
12 Oct 16, 20:43 JoseAngel: Estoy oyendo al alcalde de Badalona sobre la "soberanía local." A éstos les falta una mano tortas bien dada. |
12 Oct 16, 20:42 JoseAngel: The Lost Tribes of Humanity: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z8034 |
12 Oct 16, 20:34 JoseAngel: Tertulia de Dieter: El día del Pilar: http://esradio.libertaddigital.com/fonoteca/2016-10-12/tertulia-de-dieter-dia-del-pilar-105992.html |
12 Oct 16, 12:30 JoseAngel: Miradlos cómo huyen. |
12 Oct 16, 12:26 JoseAngel: Posicionamiento en Academia: https://paper.li/JoseAngelGLanda/1411163489?edition_id=17e8a800-8ffd-11e6-8981-0cc47a0d1605 |
12 Oct 16, 09:21 JoseAngel: Libertad Digital: La izquierda liberticida, contra la HIspanidad: http://www.libertaddigital.com/opinion/editorial/la-izquierda-liberticida-contra-la-hispanidad-80260/ |
12 Oct 16, 09:15 JoseAngel: Steps Unknown to Nature: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/101203-steps-unknown-to-nature.php |
12 Oct 16, 08:59 JoseAngel: Feliz día de la Globalización Final. |
11 Oct 16, 20:50 JoseAngel: La opresiva legislación española sobre fotografía: http://rubixephoto.com/2016/04/20/ley-legal-fotografia-calle-normativa-aplicable/ |
11 Oct 16, 16:25 JoseAngel: César Vidal sobre el referéndum de las FARC y el Premio Nobel de la paz: https://www.cesarvidal.com/index.php/Blog/ver-blog/viva_colombia |
11 Oct 16, 16:09 JoseAngel: Posicionamiento en Academia: http://www.ibercampus.es/posicionamiento-en-academia-33794.htm |
11 Oct 16, 14:02 JoseAngel: Sobre Academia y sus ránkings: https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/04/academia-a-startup-that-hosts-scientific-papers-looks-to-score-the-best-studies/ |
11 Oct 16, 12:54 JoseAngel: Me ponen un enlace en la Universidad de Yakarta: http://ramayana.unija.ac.id/id1/2757-2649/Diktis-Kretensis_240979_ramayana-unija.html |
11 Oct 16, 12:47 JoseAngel: My SSRN Author Rank: 1,575 by Downloads and 18,581 by Citations |
11 Oct 16, 10:51 JoseAngel: Un anuncio espectacular de GoPro. No lo intente Vd. en su casa, y menos fuera de ella: http://www.imbikemag.com/mountain-bike-news/2015/12/gopro-danny-macaskill-cascadia/ |
11 Oct 16, 09:14 JoseAngel: Los separatistas quieren más ayuda del Estado para su golpe de Estado http://dlvr.it/MQwpSN |
11 Oct 16, 09:12 JoseAngel: Comunistas antisistema + Sediciosos antiespaña. ¿Qué coalición más lógica? http://esradio.libertaddigital.com/fonoteca/2016-10-11/federico-a-las-6-iglesias-se-reune-con-puigdemont-105924.html |
11 Oct 16, 00:26 JoseAngel: La Falacia Cosmológica y la Falacia Modélica: https://www.academia.edu/29059356/ |
10 Oct 16, 22:18 JoseAngel: Carta de un esclavo a su antiguo amo: https://soundcloud.com/cesarvidal/programa-completo-101016 |
JoseAngel: A Master List of 1,200 Free Courses From Top Universities: 40,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures https://goo.gl/yCHqY5
10 Oct 16, 20:50 JoseAngel: Bueno, a este sedicioso administrador local, ¿por qué no lo cesan YA? ¡AL TRULLO, HOMBRE! El vendido Gobierno y su fiscal lo mantienen en el puesto. |
10 Oct 16, 20:26 JoseAngel: Farewell to... marriage: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/07/opinion/1475862011_460460.html |
10 Oct 16, 11:24 JoseAngel: Mi abuelo Severiano Landa fue uno de esos resistentes franceses: http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/10/07/actualidad/1475858612_013991.html |
JoseAngel: Un audio sur Bergson, "Suis-je un corps ou une âme?" https://youtu.be/TV70sOz-qoE
10 Oct 16, 10:50 JoseAngel: Number 36 out of 9,000,000 bicycles: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkqjH6T1W6api5nKfk5yF86dUXCfHUhne |
10 Oct 16, 06:56 JoseAngel: Jose Angel Garcia Landa Author Rank is 1,579 out of 320,955 |
10 Oct 16, 06:38 JoseAngel: Origen y estructuración emergente de la interioridad: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/101005-origen-y-estructuracion-emergente-de-la-interioridad.php |
10 Oct 16, 06:14 JoseAngel: El PSOE, enemigo de España: http://www.libertaddigital.com/opinion/jesus-lainz/el-psoe-enemigo-de-espana-80226/ |
10 Oct 16, 06:09 JoseAngel: How to Make Artificial Persons: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/101001-how-to-make-artificial-persons-hobbes-s-dramatistic-theory-of-interaction-and-of.php |
9 Oct 16, 21:15 JoseAngel: Pío Moa, Facebook, y la prohibición del desprecio a los homosexuales: https://citaconlahistoria.es/2016/09/11/la-politica-de-estados-unidos-de-america-en-la-historia-final-de-la-historia/ |
9 Oct 16, 14:06 JoseAngel: Un artículo que escribí hace más de 30 años: https://es.scribd.com/doc/294187739/4-Telling-and-Showing-Garcia-Landa |
9 Oct 16, 13:48 JoseAngel: Colombia, una cuestión de dignidad: http://blogs.elconfidencial.com/espana/tribuna/2016-10-09/colombia-paz-cuestion-dignidad_1272337/ |
9 Oct 16, 13:45 JoseAngel: Building New York: https://www.flickr.com/photos/stc4blues/29807762630/in/photostream/ |
9 Oct 16, 13:33 JoseAngel: La complejidad sale cara: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308954021 |
9 Oct 16, 13:28 JoseAngel: Una playa salvaje en Galicia: https://www.flickr.com/photos/garciala/29580077064/in/photostream/ |
9 Oct 16, 13:15 JoseAngel: Todo el Congreso español aplaudiendo el Timo-Pacto que los colombianos rechazaron. ¡FUERA TODOS, VENDIDOS! |
9 Oct 16, 12:38 JoseAngel: Dylan, Most of the Time: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/100904-bob-dylan-most-of-the-time.php |
9 Oct 16, 12:08 JoseAngel: El PSOF: http://esradio.libertaddigital.com/fonoteca/2016-10-09/sin-complejos-completo-09102016-el-psof-105877.html |
8 Oct 16, 23:32 JoseAngel: Teoría de la desilusión: http://www.ibercampus.info/teoria-de-la-desilusion-28126.htm |
8 Oct 16, 23:32 JoseAngel: En Jaraba, de sexagenario. |
8 Oct 16, 10:04 JoseAngel: Tower of Song: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/100807-tower-of-song.php |
7 Oct 16, 18:24 JoseAngel: La complejidad sale cara: Panorama de la Evolución antes de la Disolución: https://www.academia.edu/28974639/ |
6 Oct 16, 22:54 JoseAngel: Memetic isolation and cultural speciation: https://t.co/tNcAzyYvlw |
JoseAngel: Lectura mental en chimpancés: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/06/ciencia/1475747102_379084.html
6 Oct 16, 22:15 JoseAngel: España no es racional con Cataluña. No es racional seguir pagándole cañas y más cañas al que se te está meando encima. |
6 Oct 16, 20:05 JoseAngel: El parlamento catalán ordena desobedecer al Estado y la justicia española con vistas a su prusés. ¿Ah sí? Pues BOICOT A PRODUCTOS CATALANES. |
6 Oct 16, 11:20 JoseAngel: Contra FARC, Timo-Santos, ZP, Cebrián, King Huan Cahlos, Podemitas y Podemoides, Obama, Margallo, la ETA y el Papa http://okdiario.com/opinion/2016/10/05/farc-mercantilistas-tragedia-430554 |
6 Oct 16, 07:22 JoseAngel: Hace un año toqué techo en un puesto 5: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/100601-sigo-en-el-puesto-5.php |
5 Oct 16, 23:06 JoseAngel: Estoy harto, pero harto, de los de Mas. |
JoseAngel: Otra vez: https://www.flickr.com/photos/garciala/29842499180/in/photostream/
5 Oct 16, 21:35 JoseAngel: Common Loons: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikewiz/30085900226/in/explore-2016-10-04/ |
5 Oct 16, 21:27 JoseAngel: Autumn Moods: https://www.flickr.com/photos/115438960@N03/30000433912/in/explore-2016-10-04/ |
5 Oct 16, 20:43 JoseAngel: La Voz: https://soundcloud.com/cesarvidal |
5 Oct 16, 20:29 JoseAngel: On Malick's 'Voyage of Time': http://www.villagevoice.com/film/gaze-of-heaven-malicks-imax-lulu-gapes-at-the-roots-of-the-tree-of-life-9184639 |
5 Oct 16, 11:35 JoseAngel: Se me cita en 'Al Albur del Calambur': http://alalburdelcalambur.blogspot.com.es/2016/10/la-maquina-se-detiene-1909-relato-de.html |
5 Oct 16, 10:01 JoseAngel: Mi bibliografía de crítica sobre Nabokov: http://docs9.chomikuj.pl/223546601,PL,0,1,On.Nabokov.V.doc |
5 Oct 16, 07:36 JoseAngel: Bombarderos rusos cerca de Bilbao: http://www.libertaddigital.com/espana/2016-10-04/cazas-f18-espanoles-interceptaron-a-dos-bombarderos-rusos-cerca-de-bilbao-1276583859/ |
4 Oct 16, 22:30 JoseAngel: Fray Josepho certero como siempre, en su romancillo de ciego sobre Colombia: http://www.libertaddigital.com/opinion/fray-josepho/romance-del-plebiscito-colombiano-80176/ |
4 Oct 16, 18:45 JoseAngel: César Vidal sobre Venezuela: https://soundcloud.com/venezuelahastalostuetanos/conversatorioescesarvidal-dr-cesar-vidalla-resistencia26092016 |
4 Oct 16, 12:05 JoseAngel: En el art. de la Wikipedia sobre G. H. Mead hay un enlace a mi traducción de 'La Filosofía del Presente': https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Mead |
4 Oct 16, 07:09 JoseAngel: If you ask Ask: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/100407-if-you-ask-ask.php |
3 Oct 16, 23:43 JoseAngel: Libertad Digital: Colombia da al mundo una lección de dignidad: http://www.libertaddigital.com/opinion/editorial/colombia-da-al-mundo-una-leccion-de-dignidad-80175/ |
3 Oct 16, 19:14 JoseAngel: The Secret Life of Books: The Faerie Queene: https://youtu.be/vQh1IbTUhFA |
3 Oct 16, 16:52 JoseAngel: A lecture on Marie de France's 'Lanval' and on "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight': https://youtu.be/v4MRXy5U5GM |
3 Oct 16, 13:41 JoseAngel: Elizabethan Revenge: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l16vp |
3 Oct 16, 05:54 JoseAngel: Academia Uno por MIl: http://garciala.blogia.com/2016/100305-academia-uno-por-mil.php |
3 Oct 16, 05:30 JoseAngel: El País, cómo no, con Santos... y con las FARC: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2016/10/02/colombia/1475372741_072614.html?id_externo_rsoc=TW_CC |
3 Oct 16, 05:30 JoseAngel: Pierden Santos y las FARC. Gana la dignidad y la justicia... esperemos. |
2 Oct 16, 22:52 JoseAngel: CARTA: The Upright Ape: https://youtu.be/YTv5KhUtbx0 |
2 Oct 16, 20:58 JoseAngel: ¡Quién te ha visto y quién te ve, Ciudadanos!, por @antonio_robles1 http://www.libertaddigital.com/opinion/antonio-robles/quien-te-ha-visto-y-quien-te-ve-cs-80145/ |
2 Oct 16, 20:11 JoseAngel: NARCOS con alfombra roja, en Colombia: https://es.panampost.com/vanessa-araujo/2016/10/01/farc-narcotraficantes-poder-politico/ |
2 Oct 16, 18:37 JoseAngel: Hace 43 años aquí estábamos, en Panticosa y El Pueyo de Jaca, en la Operación Aguilucho: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/imagenes-del-deporte/imagenes-del-deporte-54-operacion-aguilucho-1973/283989 |
1 Oct 16, 20:40 JoseAngel: Pedro Sánchez ya es historia. A por otra. Igual ni hay elecciones ya. |
1 Oct 16, 20:22 JoseAngel: La falacia modélica (y su origen) según Bergson: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2846466 |
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1 Oct 16, 09:22 JoseAngel: Empecemos a hacer las cosas bien en España. Primero, que se vaya hoy el PSOE AL SUMIDERO. |
1 Oct 16, 07:45 JoseAngel: (Via Pinker) A Study by Charlott Stern of Gender Sociology’s Big Problem (dogmatic embrace of the doctrine of the Blank Slate). https://goo.gl/dg5RhI |
1 Oct 16, 07:38 JoseAngel: El PSOE (r) quejándose de que El País manipula la información. XD . "¡Señores, aquí se juega! ¡Aquí se bebe! ¡Escándalo!" |
(by Émile Legouis, from Legouis and Cazamian, A History of English Literature, Dent, 1937 ed. Notes are renumbered).
Poetry from 1590 to 1625
I. Elizabethan Poetry from 1590 to 1603. (NOTE 1).—Outside the theatre, almost all the literature of the Elizabethan period properly so called, that is down to 1603, derived from Lyly, Sidney, and Spenser. Romances bore the imprint of Euphues and Arcadia in turn or simultaneously. Pastorals imitated from Spenser or Sidney abounded. Astrophel and Stella, from the moment of its publication, provoked a whole flowering season of sonnets. The successive appeareance, about 1590, of Sidney's sonnets and Arcadia, and of the first books of The Faerie Queene, was the signal for an intense literary activity. It was then that a whole generation born some ten years after Spenser entered the arena of letters. The poetry alone shows such a literary ferment as makes very difficult the task of presenting the new works methodically. Doubtless drama attracted the writers who were most vital and energetic, but the majority of them turned from time to time to pure poetry as a relaxation, and wrote verses in the fashionable poetic genres. We are thus led to follow genres rather than individuals. First, however, we must deal with the voluminous works of two poets whose contribution to the drama was slight and unimportant. Their production continued into the next century, but the date of their birth and the atmosphere in which their talent was formed make them true Elizabethans. They are Daniel and Drayton.
Each of them produced one of the longest poems of the period, The Faerie Queene excepted. The American critic Lowell could call Daniel's Civil Wars and Drayton's Poly-olbion the megalosaurus and plesiosaurus of the Renascence. These poets express, more directly than Spenser, their patriotic feeling, which is less troubled than his by the dream of a golden age or by hostility to the present. They survive only ina a few pages of verse and a few short poems, but their figures are distinct and can be traced in every part of the considerable body of their works.
NOTE 1. F. E. Schelling, English Literature during the Lifetime of Shakespeare (1910).
(a) SAMUEL DANIEL.— (1562-1619)
Samuel Daniel (NOTE 2) was born in Somerset, the son of a music master. After having passed through Oxford and visited Italy, he was tutor first to William Herbert, son of the earl of Pembroke and of Sidney's sister, and then to a daughter of the virtuous Countess of Cumberland. After Spenser's death he became a sort of voluntary poet laureate. Under James I he was dramatic censor and groom of the chamber to the queen. His tastes were sober and moderate: he lived quietly in his London house cultivating the Muses; then retired to a Somersetshire farm. By the even march of his existence he contrasted with most of his contemporary poets. His poetry, well behaved as he, is the most tranquil and classical of the period. Nearly everything in the English Renascence which shocked French taste when this had been purified by the seventeenth century is missing from Daniel's work, and so is the 'fine frenzy' beloved of the Elizabethans. He was a moralist and historian first of all; he wrote the poetry of reflection, not of passion. His calm voice could, in that tumultuous time, hardly make itself heard. A correct and pure writer, he brought the qualities of prose into verse. Imagination is rare in his subjects and never disturbs his style.
NOTE 2. Complete poetical works in Chalmers's British Poets, vol. iii; complete works in prose and verse published by Grosart, 5 vols. (1885). His Delia reprinted by Arber in An English Garner, vol. iii.
He made trial of the theatre, but since he lacked the impetuous vigour of his dramatic rivals, since he was in love with nobility and serenity, he turned from the popular stage and wrote tragedies, classical in form, modelled on Seneca and the French poet Garnier—Cleopatra in 1594 and Philotas in 1611. These academic dramas could have no more than a succès d'estime. He succeeded better with his masques, which contain very attractive passages: The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses (1604), The Queen's Arcadia, a Pastoral Tragi-comedy (1606), and Hymen's Triumph.
Round about his chief work, The Civil Wars, are grouped a fair number of miscellaneous poems, sonnets to Delia, epistles, dedications, panegyrics, funeral eulogies, pastoral songs. The even quality of his verses is surprising for his day.
He translates with charm the suave elegy of the golden age in Tasso's Aminta. There is real feeling in his Letter from Octavia to Antony (1599), and even more in his Complaint of Rosamond (1592), in which the unhappy mistress of Henry II mingles her regret for her transgressions and her sighs for her lost beauty. She draws the moral from her story herself, and it is softened as it passes through her lips.
But a mood of serious reflection was more habitual to Daniel than Fancy or tenderness. It is not only by accident that the lines from his work which are most often quoted are the lyrical dialogue between Ulysses and the Siren, standing for honour and pleasure, labour and rest, and the Epistle to the Countess of Cumberland, in which he defines, in fine, strong, and calm stanzas, the sage who inhabits the serene temples of wisdom and is raised above private passion or political agitation.
Apt as he is to discourse and discuss in verse, his talent is happily displayed in a didactic poem in the form of a dialogue, Musophilus (1599), which contains a general defence of letters. Musophilus constitutes himself champion of letters against Philocosmus, who recommends an active life and rules out all poetry which does not impel to heroic action. Like Spenser in The Teares of the Muses, but with less vehement rhetoric, Musophilus deplores that so little patronage should be given to literature. He sees poetry and eloquence as the guardians of lofty morals and the forces which cleanse a nation. He has a deep faith in the strength and destiny of his mother tongue. What a great thing it would be if England, first of the nations in worth, became first in poetry also! Daniel has a vision of an English literature which should be read over the whole world. It should supplant Italian literature, now decadent:
When all that ever hotter spir'ts express'd,
Comes better'd by the patience of the north.
Patriotism was Daniel's dominant feeling and it led him to devote his capital effort to the history of his country. He recounts no such dream of the past as Spenser, nor such a long, mainly legendary chronicle as William Warner, in rude and awkward fourteen-syllabled lines, told in Albion's England (1586), a miscellany of ill-arranged stories which was so successful that it was republished in successive and enlarged editions until the author's death in 1609. Daniel did not share Warner's desire to begin his book at the Flood and bring it down to the execution of Mary Stuart. He was impressed by the effects of civil war and uneasy lest, since the succession to Elizabeth was entirely uncertain, it should be renewed.
He therefore chose no period of glory for his theme, but told in narrative the story which was at this moment being dramatized, which Shakespeare was taking for the subject of plays, the story of the bloodthirsty struggle between the houses of Lancaster and York. The eight cantos of Daniel's Civil Wars, published from 1595 to 1609, treat of the misfortunes of England from the reing of Richard II until the break between Warwick and Edward IV, and, in spite of their seven to eight thousand lines, they leave the tale unfinished. It corresponds exactly to the Shakespearian 'histories,' Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, and the two first parts of Henry VI, sometimes following them and sometimes going ahead of them. Daniel's exposition is more accurate, cool, and dignified than the plays, which bring on to the stage a succession of animated pictures by turns chivalrous and comic, arbitrary alike in their omissions and additions. It is strange to read Daniel's calm stanzas, and to remember the tumultuous dramas in which the same stories are told, or Spenser's romantic transfiguration of the national annals. Daniel's clear and expressed intention is to transfigure nothing:
I versify the truth, not poetize.
Unfortunately he poetizes all too little. Conscientiously he keeps pace with facts, adding fictions only very rarely. It is remarkable that his fictions have the same turn as in the pseudo-classical epics. They are inserted deliberately as ornaments, intellectual relaxations, for instance the mythological origin he fabricates for printing and artillery, two ill-omened inventions which Nemesis orders Pandora to supply.
This element of the marvellous is exceptional in Daniel's work. If his facts are dull, so much the worse; if dramatic, so much the better. Nor does he seek to interest by penetrating or lively portrayal of character. His calm narrative does scant justice to such outstanding personalities as the wild Margaret of Anjou, or to scenes of violence like Jack Cade's rebellion. If there is fairly lifelike psychology in his story of the first interviews between Edward IV and Lady Elizabeth Grey, it probably is that the author is inpired by the staging of this incident in Henry VI. The best part of his poem, apart from a few vigorous stories, consists of the moral reflections arising out of his patriotism as it is wounded by his own story of atrocious intestine conflict.
On the whole this long poem is a mistake. The careful and correct Daniel, treating the most tragic of subjects, is tedious. It is his misfortune to have misused his gifts. It would have taken a d'Aubigné to do justice to material as sombre and as bloodstained.
Whith his qualities and defects, Daniel was the writer of that day whose work was most justly estimated when it appeared. Spenser, who knew him at the outset of his career, praised his harmony and the pathos of his Complaint of Rosamond, but blamed him for flying too timidly and near the ground, exhorting him:
Then rouse thy feathers quickly, Daniell.
Ben Jonson more bluntly says that he was 'a good honest man, but no poet.' Drayton considered that he was 'too much historian in verse' and that 'his manner better fitteth prose.' He was indeed, as will be seen, one of the best prose-writers of his time. William Browne, on the other hand, admired the purity of this poetic style and called him 'well-languaged.'
This purity, then so rare, won him a recrudescence of favour in the nineteenth century. Wirters like Wordsworth and Coleridge who were working for the simplification of the language praise Daniel for having banished eccentricities and arbitrary inventions from his style. Southey is struck by his discreet use of the pathetic and says that he writers 'always in a strain of tender feeling, and in language as easy and natural as it is pure.'
His contemporaries, who loved ardour, missed in his work the passionate qualities and the movement, brilliancy, and variety which they prized more than aught else. For us, the very absence of the merits which the Elizabethans often carried to excess makes pleasantly restful reading of his verses. It is as though we sailed for a day on smooth waters after passing through a storm. Moreover, if his reflections are not strikingly new, they are, as a rule, full of good sense and reason and are lit by a serene philosophy: he is dignified and proud as well as wise. He is, moreover, never harsh and constantly self-controlled.
(...)
from ch. 8, Prose from 1578 to 1625
(...) In addition to their controversy on the morality of poetry and their consideration of dramatic art,the men of the English Renascence gave a fair share of attention to a discussion on the comparative merits of measured, or reformed, and rhymed verse. The dispute arose in Italy and France, but it was the occasion in England of a long series of attacks and counter-attacks which prove it to have been waged in this country with more heat than elsewhere. It is remarkable that the first antagonists of rhyme were so carried away by their cult of antiquity that they disregarded the existence of blank verse, which seemed to them a bastard and inadequate compomise. They wished, at the same time, to abolish rhyme, which they held to be Gothic and barbarous, and they claimed to make English syllables quantitative, long or short as in Latin. Some of them, like Sir John Cheke and Ascham, vaunted the iambic line, and Gabriel Harvey even championed the hexameter. It can serve no purpose to speak of the unreadable poems which Harvey, Stanyhurst, Abraham Fraunce, Campion, and others—even, passingly, Sidney and Spenser—produced in accordance with these rules. The metricians of the day were exercised by the question. William Webbe, in A Discourse of English Poetrie (1586), shows himself the determined partisan of measured verse. George Puttentham, in The Arte of English Poetrie (1586), the most voluminous of the technical treatises of the period, is less willing to commit himself and holds the balance between the contesting parties. The poet Thomas Campion, author of so many charming rhymed songs, was in the enemy camp in 1602. In his Observations on the Art of English Poesie he condemns rhyme as improper to poetry. The only good effect of his attack was that it induced the poet Samuel Daniel to write his Defence of Rhyme (1603), which closed this controversy of more than thirty years' standing and was the first example in England of sane aesthetic criticism applied to a special subject. Hitherto all the blows had been aimed wide. On either side there had been pedantry, abuse of authorities, ignorance of essential facts, disregard of blank verse, even confusion between the meanings of the wods rhythm and rhyme. Daniel evinced a reasonableness, exactness, and perspicacity unknown to the others. Even to-day it is worth while to meditate on his words. He bases himself on uses. While he denies that the admission of rhyme, which exists and please many nations, is a matter for discussion, he does not shirk the task of founding rhyme on reason. He does not bow before the ancients. That rhyme makes rhythm of a kind unknown to them is, he says, their loss, who knew not this 'Echo of a delightful report.' Nor does rhyme exclude measure from English verse, which is based on tonic accent. To complain of the shackles of rhyme is to ignore the nature of the pleasure of poetryand of its creation. The poet finds that 'Rhyme is no impediment to his conceit, but rather gives him wings to mount, and carries him not out of his course, but as it were beyond his power to a far happier flight.' Rhyme is a means of imparting form, outline, and limits to imaginative conceptions. It organizes chaos. Its terminal cadence gives 'a certainty' as well as measure.
Daniel has a secret preference for the stanza over the couplet, and he would reserve feminine rhymes for songs. But these are personal tastes, as he himself knows and says, and modestly refuses to erect them into law. It was doubtlessly his fondness for the stanza rather than the coupulet which prevented the classical school from acknowledging him as one of the best of their forerunners.
His own moderation impels him to condemn the intransigence of those who would, at one stroke, rule out all the past. But in him this moderation is accompanied by frank independence. He throws off the yoke of antiquity:
All our understanding are not to be built by the square of Greece and Italie. We are the children of Nature as well as they, we are not so placed out of the way of judgement, but that the same Sunne of Discretion shineth upon us ... Wee must not looke upon the immense course of times past, as men overlooke spacious and wide countreys, from off high mountaines, and are never the neerer to judge of the true nature of the soile.
From end to end of his short treatise Daniel unfolds his argument in the same wise and reasonable spirit. His pleading, often directed against the superstition of the humanists, is finely classical in form. It is oratory, less poetic and nervous than the language of Sidney's Defence, at times a little redundant, but exceptional in this period by its sequence, its logic, and its urbanity. More than any one of his contemporaries, Daniel possessed the qualities of the perfect writer of prose.
