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A WEEK: Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for PEOPLE OF want of prudence to give wisdom the preference. What we need to A WEEK know in any case is very simple. It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted. They must behave, at any rate, and will work up any material. There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.We should be slow to mend, my friends, as slow to require mending, “Not hurling, according to the oracle, a transcendent foot towards piety.” The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. What was the excitement of the Delphic priestess compared with the calm wisdom of Socrates? — or whoever it was that was wise. — Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity. “Men find that action is another thing Than what they in discoursing papers read; The world’s affairs require in managing More arts than those wherein you clerks proceed.”

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A WEEK: Though we know well, “That ’t is not in the power of kings PEOPLE OF [or presidents] to raise A spirit for verse that is not born A WEEK thereto, Nor are they born in every prince’s days”; yet spite of all they sang in praise of their “Eliza’s reign,” we have evidence that poets may be born and sing in our day, in the presidency of James K. Polk, “And that the utmost powers of English rhyme,” Were not “within her peaceful reign confined.” The prophecy of the poet Daniel is already how much more than fulfilled! “And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T’ enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th’ yet unformed occident, May come refined with the accents that are ours.” Enough has been said in these days of the charm of fluent writing. We hear it complained of some works of genius, that they have fine thoughts, but are irregular and have no flow. But even the mountain peaks in the horizon are, to the eye of science, parts of one range. We should consider that the flow of thought is more like a tidal wave than a prone river, and is the result of a celestial influence, not of any declivity in its channel. The river flows because it runs down hill, and flows the faster the faster it descends. The reader who expects to float down stream for the whole voyage, may well complain of nauseating swells and choppings of the sea when his frail shore-craft gets amidst the billows of the ocean stream, which flows as much to sun and moon as lesser streams to it. But if we would appreciate the flow that is in these books, we must expect to feel it rise from the page like an exhalation, and wash away our critical brains like burr millstones, flowing to higher levels above and behind ourselves. There is many a book which ripples on like a freshet, and flows as glibly as a mill-stream sucking under a causeway; and when their authors are in the full tide of their discourse, Pythagoras and Plato and Jamblichus halt beside them. Their long, stringy, slimy sentences are of that consistency that they naturally flow and run together. They read as if written for military men, for men of business, there is such a despatch in them. Compared with these, the grave thinkers and philosophers seem not to have got their swaddling-clothes off; they are slower than a Roman army in its march, the rear camping to-night where the van camped last night. The wise Jamblichus eddies and gleams like a watery slough. “How many thousands never heard the name Of Sidney, or of Spenser, or their books? And yet brave fellows, and presume of fame, And seem to bear down all the world with looks.”

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1562

Samuel Daniel was born near Taunton in Somerset, a son of a music-master. John Daniel was a brother. A sister, Rosa Daniel, was Edmund Spenser’s model for Rosalind in his THE SHEPHERD’S CALENDAR, and eventually she got married with John Florio.

NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT

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1579

Samuel Daniel was admitted as a commoner to Magdalen Hall at Oxford University (founded in 1448, building erected in 1487, Magdalen would be the alma mater of Thomas Hobbes, and is combined with Hart Hall, founded 1282, building erected 1284, to form “Hertford College”; he would be leaving after a few years without a degree). HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1585

Samuel Daniel’s 1st known publication, THE WORTHY TRACT OF PAULUS JOVIUS, a translation of the Bishop of Nocera’s IMPRESE (to which he appended some original material).

Michele Mercati established one of the 1st mineralogical curiosity cabinets in Europe. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1586

There is a record of one “Samuel Daniel” as a servant to Edward Stafford, 3d Baron Stafford while he was England’s ambassador in France — this is likely to have been our commoner poet.

LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD.

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1591

Without his consent, 27 of Samuel Daniel’s sonnets were included at the back of Thomas Nash’s edition of Sir Philip Sidney’s ASTROPHEL AND STELLA.

THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

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1592

In the household of Mary, Countess of Pembroke at Wilton, Samuel Daniel was tutor to her son, Lord William Herbert. He dedicated his 1st known volume of verse, DELIA, CONTAYNING CERTAINE SONNETS, to her, and in the same year he would create a romance, THE COMPLAYNT OF ROSAMOND, and tack this into the volume.

THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

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1594

To a reprint, Samuel Daniel’s DELIA AND ROSAMOND AUGMENTED, was added his tragedy of CLEOPATRA the original Bad Girl, which is written in classical style in alternately rhyming heroic verse with choral interludes.

DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD.

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1595

Samuel Daniel’s THE FIRST FOWRE BOOKES OF THE CIVILE WARRES BETWEENE THE TWO HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORKE, an historical poem in ottava rima on the subject of the Wars of the Roses (eventually this would be five books).

William Hunnis’s HUNNIES RECREATIONS, CONTEYNING FOURE GODLIE AND COMPENDIOUS DISCOURSES, INTITULED ADAM’S BANISHMENT, CHRIST HIS CRIB, THE LOST SHEEPE, THE COMPLAINT OF OLD AGE. WHEREUNTO IS NEWELY ADJOYNED THESE TWO NOTABLE AND PITHIE TREATISES, THE CREATION OR FIRST WEEKE, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JOSEPH, COMPILED BY WILLIAM HUNNIS ONE OF THE GENTLEMEN OF HIR MAJESTIES CHAPPELL, AND MAISTER TO THE CHILDREN OF THE SAME (Printed by P.S. for W. Jaggard, and are to be sold at his shoppe at the east end of St. Dunstans church).

Vincentio Saviolo, an Italian fencing master living in England, published HIS PRACTICE IN TWO BOOKS. A manual of Italian rapier fencing featuring dialogue between the master and student, it was much despised by George Silver and the Masters of Defence.

Across Europe, the previous harvest had been a catastrophe. This would be the 1st of the three so-called “dear years” of England, during which not only meat but even dairy products were in such low supply that they commanded such a price as to be entirely out of the reach of the poor.1 In these years wheat flour would often need to be augmented by grinding and boiling the root of the cuckoopint, Arum maculatum, until even wheat would become too dear for regular consumption by the poor and the many would shift their menus in the direction of “Horsse corne, beanes, peason, otes, tare and lintels.”2

WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MIND YOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF

1. A. Appleby, FAMINE IN TUDOR AND STUART ENGLAND (Stanford CA: Stanford UP, 1978), page 5. 2. J.C. Drummond and A. Wilbraham, THE ENGLISHMAN’S FOOD: A HISTORY OF FIVE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH DIET (London: Jonathan Cape, 1958), page 88. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1599

As far as is known, it was not until this year that there was published Samuel Daniel’s THE POETICALL ESSAYES OF SAM. DANYEL, which contained the THE CIVILE WARS BETWEEN THE TWO HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORKE, MUSOPHILUS, OR A GENERAL DEFENCE OF LEARNING, and A LETTER FROM OCTAVIA TO MARCUS ANTONIUS, as well as other poems.

CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT

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1600

Ben Jonson’s play CYNTHIA’S REVELS.

At about this point the commoner poet Samuel Daniel became tutor to Lady Anne Clifford, daughter of the Countess of Cumberland. On the death of Edmund Spenser he was benefited with the somewhat vague office of Poet Laureate, which it seems however he would relinquish in favor of Jonson. Whether it was on this occasion is not known, but about this time, and at the recommendation of his brother-in-law, Giovanni Florio, he was taken into favor at court and wrote A PANEGYRICKE CONGRATULATORIE in ottava rima, which was offered to King James at Burleigh Harrington in Rutland.

The Poets Laureate of England

1591-1599 Edmund Spenser 1599-1619 Samuel Daniel 1619-1637 Ben Jonson 1638-1668 William Davenant 1670-1689 John Dryden 1689-1692 Thomas Shadwell 1692-1715 Nahum Tate 1715-1718 Nicholas Rowe 1718-1730 Laurence Eusden 1730-1757 Colley Cibber 1758-1785 William Whitehead 1785-1790 Thomas Warton 1790-1813 Henry James Pye 1813-1843 Robert Southey 1843-1850 William Wordsworth 1850-1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson 1896-1913 Alfred Austin 1913-1930 Robert Bridges 1930-1967 John Masefield 1967-1972 Cecil Day-Lewis 1972-1984 Sir John Betjeman 1984-1998 Ted Hughes 1999- Andrew Motion HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1601

Samuel Daniel’s A PANEGYRICKE CONGRATULATORIE was published in a presentation folio, the 1st folio volume of collected works by a living English poet, THE WORKS OF SAMUEL DANIEL NEWLY AUGMENTED. Many later editions would contain in addition his POETICAL EPISTLES to his patrons: Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Henry Howard, the Countess of Cumberland, the Countess of Bedford, Lady Anne Clifford, and the Earl of Southampton. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1602

Samuel Daniel’s THE DEFENCE OF RYME was a response to Thomas Campion’s OBSERVATIONS ON THE ART OF ENGLISH POESIE, which had argued that rhyme was unsuited to the English language. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1603

Samuel Daniel was appointed master of the queen’s revels. In this capacity he would be bringing out a series of masques and pastoral tragi-comedies — of which were printed THE VISION OF THE TWELVE GODDESSES, THE QUEEN’S ARCADIA (an adaptation of Guarini’s PASTOR FIDO), TETHYS’ FESTIVAL OR THE QUEENES WAKE (written on the occasion of Prince Henry’s becoming a Knight of the Bath), and HYMEN’S TRIUMPH (in honour of Lord Roxburghe’s marriage). ELIZABETH I HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1604

Publication of Samuel Daniel’s masque THE VISION OF THE TWELVE GODDESSES. After a performance of the play PHILOTAS he was called before the Privy Council to explain why the hero of the play had seemed to resemble Robert Devereux, 2d Earl of Essex, who had on February 25, 1601 been beheaded with an ax on the Tower Green in front of the chapel of the Tower of London, for the treason of having plotted to kidnap Queen Elizabeth.

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1605

Samuel Daniel’s CERTAINE SMALL POEMS LATELY PRINTED, with THE TRAGEDY OF PHILOTAS and ULISSES AND THE SYREN. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1606

Samuel Daniel’s A FUNERALL POEME UPPON… THE LATE NOBLE EARLE OF DEVONSHYRE and his THE QUEENES ARCADIA (an adaptation of Guarini’s PASTOR FIDO). HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1607

Upon the death of his bride Jacobmijntje van Loor, Johannes de Laet returned from London to Leiden.

Publication of CERTAINE SMALL WORKES HERETOFORE DIVULGED BY SAMUEL DANIEL, a revised version of all his works with the exceptions of DELIA and THE CIVILE WARES BETWEENE THE HOUSE OF LANCASTER AND YORKE CORRECTED AND CONTINUED…. The commoner poet was made a gentleman-extraordinary and one of the grooms of the Queen’s privy chamber, sinecure offices which did not interfere with his literary career. William Shakespeare, John Selden, and George Chapman were among the few who were welcome to visit him in his seclusion in Old Street, St Luke’s in London, where according to Fuller he would “lie hid for some months together, the more retiredly to enjoy the company of the Muses, and then would appear in public to converse with his friends.” HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1609

Samuel Daniel’s THE CIVILE WARES BETWEENE THE TWO HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORKE was complete in eight books.

George Chapman and Ben Jonson were imprisoned for having authored (with John Marston, who was not imprisoned) EASTWARD HOE, a play found by King James I to be offensive to Scots such as himself.

JAMES I

The leaves containing the passage that had given offence were cancelled and reprinted, but here is what had been said in Act iii, Scene 2: “Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on ’t, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia]; for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.” Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.3 Light gains make heavy purses. ’T is good to be merry and wise. — EASTWARD HOE. Act i. Sc. 1. Make ducks and drakes with shillings. — EASTWARD HOE. Act i. Sc. 1. Enough ’s as good as a feast.4 — EASTWARD HOE. Act iii. Sc. 2. Fair words never hurt the tongue. — EASTWARD HOE. Act iv. Sc. 1. Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. — EASTWARD HOE. Act iv. Sc. 1. I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf. — EASTWARD HOE. Act v. Sc. 1.

3. This would be accessed by Benjamin Franklin’s “Poor Richard.” 4. Dives and Pauper (1493). Gascoigne: Memories (1575). Henry Fielding: Covent Garden Tragedy, act ii. sc. 6. Isaac Bickerstaff: Love in a Village, act iii. sc. 1. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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WALDEN: Sometimes, on Sundays, I heard the bells, the Lincoln, PEOPLE OF Acton, Bedford, or Concord bell, when the wind was favorable, WALDEN a faint, sweet, and, as it were, natural melody, worth importing into the wilderness. At a sufficient distance over the woods this sound acquires a certain vibratory hum, as if the pine needles in the horizon were the strings of a harp which it swept. All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it. There came to me in this case a melody which the air had strained, and which had conversed with every leaf and needle of the wood, that portion of the sound which the elements had taken up and modulated and echoed from vale to vale. The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph. At evening, the distant lowing of some cow in the horizon beyond the woods sounded sweet and melodious, and at first I would mistake it for the voices of certain minstrels by whom I was sometimes serenaded, who might be straying over hill and dale; but soon I was not unpleasantly disappointed when it was prolonged into the cheap and natural music of the cow. I do not mean to be satirical, but to express my appreciation of those youths’ singing, when I state that I perceived clearly that it was akin to the music of the cow, and they were at length one articulation of Nature. Regularly at half past seven, in one part of the summer, after the evening train had gone by, the whippoorwills chanted their vespers for half an hour, sitting on a stump by my door, or upon the ridge pole of the house. They would begin to sing almost with as much precision as a clock, within five minutes of a particular time, referred to the setting of the sun, every evening. I had a rare opportunity to become acquainted with their habits. Sometimes I heard four or five at once in different parts of the wood, by accident one a bar behind another, and so near me that I distinguished not only the cluck after each note, but often that singular buzzing sound like a fly in a spider’s web, only proportionally louder. Sometimes one would circle round and round me in the woods a few feet distant as if tethered by a string, when probably it was near its eggs. They sang at intervals throughout the night, and were again as musical as ever just before and about dawn.

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When other birds are still the screech owls take up the strain, like mourning women their ancient u-lu-lu. Their dismal scream is truly Ben Jonsonian. Wise midnight hags! It is no honest and blunt tu-whit tu-who of the poets, but, without jesting, a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual consolations of suicide lovers remembering the pangs and the delights of supernal love in the infernal groves. Yet I love to hear their wailing, their doleful responses, trilled along the wood-side, reminding me sometimes of music and singing birds; as if it were the dark and tearful side of music, the regrets and sighs that would fain be sung. They are the spirits, the low spirits and melancholy forebodings, of fallen souls that once in human shape night- walked the earth and did the deeds of darkness, no expiating their sins with their wailing hymns or threnodies in their scenery of their transgressions. They give me a new sense of variety and capacity of that nature which is our common dwelling. Oh-o-o-o-o that I never had been bor-r-r-r-n! sighs one on this side of the pond, and circles with the restlessness of despair to some new perch on the gray oaks. Then –that I never had been bor-r-r-r-n! echoes another on the farther side with tremulous sincerity, and –bor-r-r-r-n! comes faintly from far in the Lincoln woods. I was also serenaded by a hooting owl. Near at hand you could fancy it the most melancholy sound in Nature, as if she meant by this to stereotype and make permanent in her choir the dying moans of a human being, –some poor weak relic of mortality who has left hope behind, and howls like an animal, yet with human sobs, on entering the dark valley, made more awful by a certain gurgling melodiousness,– I find myself beginning with the letters gl and I try to imitate it, –expressive of a mind which has reached the gelatinous mildewy stage in the mortification of all healthy and courageous thought. It reminded me of ghouls and idiots and insane howlings. But now one answers from far woods in a strain made really melodious by distance, –Hoo hoo hoo, hoorer hoo; and indeed for the most part it suggested only pleasing associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter.

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I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognized. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the double spruce stands hung with usnea lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chicadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath; but now a more dismal and fitting day dawns, and a different race of creatures awakes to express the meaning of Nature there. Late in the evening I heard the distant rumbling of wagons over bridges,-a sound heard farther than almost any other at night, – the baying of dogs, and sometimes again the lowing of some disconsolate cow in a distant barn-yard. In the mean while all the shore rang with the trump of bullfrogs, the sturdy spirits of ancient wine-bibbers and wassailers, still unrepentant, trying to sing a catch in their Stygian lake, –if the Walden nymphs will pardon the comparison, for though there are almost no weeds, there are frogs there,– who would fain keep up the hilarious rules of their old festal tables, though their voices have waxed hoarse and solemnly grave, mocking at mirth, and the wine has lost its flavor, and become only liquor to distend their paunches, and sweet intoxication never comes to drown the memory of the past, but mere saturation and waterloggedness and distention. The most aldermanic, with his chin upon a heart-leaf, which serves for a napkin to his drooling chaps, under this northern shore quaffs a deep draught of the once scorned water, and passes round the cup with the ejaculation tr-r-r-oonk, tr-r-r-oonk, tr-r-r-oonk! and straightway comes over the water from some distant cove the same password repeated, where the next in seniority and girth has gulped down to his mark; and when this observance has made the circuit of the shores, then ejaculates the master of ceremonies, with satisfaction, tr-r-r-oonk! and each in his turn repeats the same down to the least distended, leakiest, and flabbiest paunched, that there be no mistake; and then the bowl goes round again and again, until the sun disperses the morning mist, and only the patriarch is not under the pond, but vainly bellowing troonk from time to time, and pausing for a reply. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1610

Publication of Samuel Daniel’s masque TETHYS FESTIVAL OR THE QUEENES WAKE, written on the occasion of Prince Henry’s becoming a Knight of the Bath. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1612

Samuel Daniel’s prose THE FIRST PART OF THE HISTORIE OF ENGLAND, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES DOWN TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF EDWARD III.

George Chapman’s THE WIDDOWES TEARES. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1615

Publication of Samuel Daniel’s pastoral play HYMENS TRIUMPH, in honour of Lord Roxburghe’s marriage.

At Trinity College of Cambridge University, the minor fellow George Herbert was elected a major fellow.

Cambridge was granted the right to elect two MPs. The vote was given to all members of the senate. (Between 1784 and 1806 one of Cambridge’s MPs would be William Pitt. In 1826 Lord Palmerston, who had been Cambridge’s representative since 1811, would be defeated as a result of his support for a proposed Parliamentary Reform Act.) HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1617

Samuel Daniel’s COLLECTION OF THE HISTORIE OF ENGLAND, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES DOWN TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF EDWARD III was continued and published. Late in life the commoner poet threw up his titular posts at the court of the monarch to retire to a farm called “The Ridge” which he rented at Beckington, near Devizes in Wiltshire.

Upon a visit by King James VI to Scotland, his native land, Sir William Drummond of Hawthornden recited to the royal tourist a panegyric entitled “Forth Feasting.” HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1619

October 14, Thursday (Old Style): Samuel Daniel died on the farm “The Ridge” at Beckington, near Devizes in Wiltshire. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1623

A brother (John Daniel?) prepared THE WHOLE WORKES OF SAMUEL DANIEL ESQUIRE IN POETRIE.

First folio of Shakespeare. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1692

A section dealing with William the Conqueror out of Samuel Daniel’s COLLECTION OF THE HISTORIE OF ENGLAND, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES DOWN TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF EDWARD III was published as if it were the work of Sir Walter Raleigh. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1795

All 14 volumes of Robert Anderson’s Edinburgh edition of THE WORKS OF THE BRITISH POETS, WITH PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, that occupied him from 1792 into 1807, would bear the nominal date of 1795. (It is said that Henry Thoreau would copy poems by Sir William Drummond of Hawthornden, Thomas Carew, George Peele, Samuel Daniel, Richard Lovelace, Lawrence Minot, and the Reverend John Donne from Volumes IV and V of this anthology; I am however unable to locate anything by Peele in these volumes.) WORKS, VOLUME IV WORKS, VOLUME V HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1837

January 9, Monday: David Henry Thoreau checked out, from Harvard Library, the 3d volume of the 21- volume set edited by Alexander Chalmers, THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS, FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER; INCLUDING THE SERIES EDITED WITH PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, BY DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON: AND THE MOST APPROVED TRANSLATIONS. THE ADDITIONAL LIVES BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS IN TWENTY- ONE VOLUMES (London, 1810). PERUSE VOLUME III

Thoreau would extract from this volume Samuel Daniel’s Philotas, Philocosmus, and Musophilus into his literary notebook, and from there the material would be making its way into A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND HDT WHAT? INDEX

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MERRIMACK RIVERS, in the “Sunday” and “Monday” chapters.

SAMUEL DANIEL He also extracted from “To the Lady Margaret, Countess of Cumberland” into his literary notebook, and from 5 there into A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS, and into “A Plea for Captain John Brown.” SAMUEL DANIEL

5. He also extracted from “Ulysses and the Syren,” “History of the Civil Wars,” “To Lucy Countess of Bedford,” “To the Lady Anne Clifford,” “To Henry Wrothesly, Early of Southampton,” and “Hymen’s Triumph to the Queen” into his literary notebook. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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“A PLEA FOR CAPTAIN JOHN BROWN”: One writer says that Brown’s peculiar monomania made him to be “dreaded by the Missourians as a supernatural being.” Sure enough, a hero in the midst of us cowards is always so dreaded. He is just that thing. He shows himself superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him.

“Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!”

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Thoreau also checked out (a 2d time, as he had already checked out this book) the 2d edition of Samuel Bailey’s ESSAYS ON THE FORMATION AND PUBLICATION OF OPINIONS. BAILEY’S OPINIONS

(This is indeed rare: on this new reading, scholars have discovered, as on the first pass in 1834, Thoreau took no notes. There is nothing in any of his published writings and there is nothing in any of his commonplace books to indicate that our guy had noted in this volume any thought whatever of any value to him. –Perhaps the fact that this philosophy baked none of his bread reveals something about him to us.) HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1998

Geoffrey Hiller’s and Peter Groves’s SAMUEL DANIEL: SELECTED POETRY AND A DEFENCE OF RHYME (Asheville NC: Pegasus Press).

“MAGISTERIAL HISTORY” IS FABULATION: HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY

“Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Samuel Daniel HDT WHAT? INDEX

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COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In addition to the property of others, such as extensive quotations and reproductions of images, this “read-only” computer file contains a great deal of special work product of Austin Meredith, copyright 2014. Access to these interim materials will eventually be offered for a fee in order to recoup some of the costs of preparation. My hypercontext button invention which, instead of creating a hypertext leap through hyperspace —resulting in navigation problems— allows for an utter alteration of the context within which one is experiencing a specific content already being viewed, is claimed as proprietary to Austin Meredith — and therefore freely available for use by all. Limited permission to copy such files, or any material from such files, must be obtained in advance in writing from the “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project, 833 Berkeley St., Durham NC 27705. Please contact the project at .

“It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.” – Remark by character “Garin Stevens” in William Faulkner’s INTRUDER IN THE DUST

Prepared: September 28, 2014 HDT WHAT? INDEX

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ARRGH AUTOMATED RESEARCH REPORT

GENERATION HOTLINE

This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by a human. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested that we pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of the shoulder of our pet parrot “Laura” (as above). What these chronological lists are: they are research reports compiled by ARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term the Kouroo Contexture (this is data mining). To respond to such a request for information we merely push a button. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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Commonly, the first output of the algorithm has obvious deficiencies and we need to go back into the modules stored in the contexture and do a minor amount of tweaking, and then we need to punch that button again and recompile the chronology — but there is nothing here that remotely resembles the ordinary “writerly” process you know and love. As the contents of this originating contexture improve, and as the programming improves, and as funding becomes available (to date no funding whatever has been needed in the creation of this facility, the entire operation being run out of pocket change) we expect a diminished need to do such tweaking and recompiling, and we fully expect to achieve a simulation of a generous and untiring robotic research librarian. Onward and upward in this brave new world.

First come first serve. There is no charge. Place requests with . Arrgh.