INTRODUCTION PROEM MICHAEL ANGELO'S SONNETS CAMPANELLA'S SONNETS NOTES TO MICHAEL ANGELO'S SONNETS NOTES TO CAMPANELLA'S SONNETS APPENDICES INTRODUCTION.

The sonnet prefixed as a proem to the whole book is generally attributed to Giordano Bruno, in whose Dialogue on the Eroici Furori it occurs.

THE SONNETS OF TOMMASO CAMPANELLA I. THE PROEM.

Thus when he began, "Why, Sir, as to the good or evil of card-playing;" Garrick would make this arch comment on his proem; "Now he is considering which side he shall take."

* * PROEM.

[Fr.], protasis^, proemium^, prolusion^, proem, prolepsis

In a short proem the writer speaks of himself as ninety-nine years old.

Mere narrations are allowed in this oratory, not proems, not excursions, not glosses.

Proem, lib. Contra, philos. 6512.

Southey quoted the passage in the Notes to the Proem.

The poet, as was only to be expected, had his little grievance with the printer, who, in spite of all his remonstrances and corrections in proof,the printer was a little wrong-headed Scotchman,had insisted at the last moment in heading his Tyrtean "Proem," a fine aerial trumpet-blast somewhat Shelleyan in style, with the word that was evidently intended, namely, "Poem."

So, many a humble poet dreams His songs will touch the human heart, And full of hope his offering lays Before the shrine of Art; Poor dreamer, may he never know That he too draws a silent bow! CONTENTS PROEM MY PROMENADE SOLITAIRE REINCARNATION TO THE "RING NEBULA" THE WAIF THE SILVER HERONS TO THE SPHINX YOUTH AND AGE

Its object is to commemorate the late auspicious marriage of the presumptive Heiress of the English crown with the young Prince of Saxe-Cobourg; and consists of a Proem, a Dream, and an Epiloguewith a L'envoy, and various annotations.

The Proem, as was most fitting, is entirely devoted to the praise of the Laureate himself; and contains an account, which cannot fail to be very interesting, both to his Royal auditors and to the world at large, of his early studies and attainmentsthe excellence of his geniusthe nobleness of his views and the happiness that has been the result of these precious gifts.

This is the general argument of the Proem.

There is a proem, as it is termed, supposed to be written by Jedediah Cleishbotham, the schoolmaster and parish clerk of the village of Gandercleugh, in which we are given to understand that these Tales were compiled by his deceased usher, Mr. Peter Pattieson, from the narratives or conversations of such travellers as frequented the Wallace Inn, in that village.

Of this proem we shall only say that it is written in the quaint style of that prefixed by Gay to his Pastorals, being, as Johnson terms it, "such imitation as he could obtain of obsolete language, and by consequence in a style that was never written nor spoken in any age or place.

PROEM (EPIMETHEUS)

I'll write a very pretty little poem, Of which this present stanza's but the proem.

"Proem to an Essay on Pastoral, and Elegy on Queen Mary, by the Honourable Edward Howard, 21st January 1695.

[Footnote: Proem to Romola.]

The first is, that it is no part of the present design, as may be seen in the proem of this little book.

The gorgeous proem, or introduction to the panorama, was then for the first time disclosed to the public.