Donna M. Campbell
English 494: Jazz Age/Harlem Renaissance
Lecture Materials
September 7, 2021
August 2021
Allusion to Edna St. Vincent Millay: “Figs from Thistles: First Fig”
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!
Allusion to “Cabot” in “You Were Perfectly Fine”
The quotation is from a toast given in 1910 at a Holy Cross alumni dinner:
“Here’s to dear old Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod,
Where Lowells speak only to Cabots,
And Cabots speak only to God.”
494JazzAgeHarlemRenaissance&AlgonquinRoundTable
Allusions:
“The Sea Change”
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. --Alexander Pope, "Essay on Man: Epistle Two" Of his bones are coral made, Those are pearls that were his eyes, Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change, into something rich and strange -- Shakespeare, The Tempest
Powerpoint: 494JazzAgeHarlemRenaissance1
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