Culprit Fay Arthur Lumley Illustrated 1875 Hudson River Epic Poem Fairy Rare

Description: The culprit Fay : a poem / by Joseph Rodman Drake ; with one hundred illustrations by Arthur Lumley. (1875) A fantastic copy of the long forgotten epic poem of Fairies in the Hudson River Valley on par with Washington Irving's fairy tales. The exquisite poem of 'The Culprit Fay' was composed hastily among the Highlands of the Hudson, in the summer of 1819. The author–says his biography–was walking with some friends on a warm moonlight evening, when one of the party remarked that it would be difficult to write a faery poem, purely imaginative, without the aid of human characters. When the party was reassembled, two or three days afterward, 'The Culprit Fay' was read to them, nearly as it is now printed" Joseph Rodman Drake (August 7, 1795 – September 21, 1820) was an early American poet. Biography Born in New York City, he was orphaned when young and entered a mercantile house. While still a child, he showed a talent for writing poems. He was educated at Columbia College. In 1813 he began studying in a physician's office. In 1816 he began to practice medicine and in the same year married Sarah, daughter of Henry Eckford, a naval architect. In 1819, together with his friend and fellow poet Fitz-Greene Halleck, he wrote a series of satirical verses for the New York Evening Post, which were published under the penname "The Croakers." Drake died of consumption a year later at the age of twenty-five. As a writer, Drake is considered part of the "Knickerbocker group", which also included Halleck, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Kirke Paulding, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, Robert Charles Sands, Lydia M. Child, and Nathaniel Parker Willis.[1] A collection of poems by Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay and Other Poems, was published posthumously by his daughter in 1835. His best-known poems are the long title-poem of that collection, and the patriotic "The American Flag" which was set as a cantata for two soloists, choir and orchestra by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák in 1892-93.[2] "The Culprit Fay" served as the inspiration for a 1908 orchestral rhapsody of the same name by Henry Kimball Hadley.[3] Fitz-Greene Halleck's poem "Green be the turf above thee" was written as a memorial to Drake. Joseph Rodman Drake Park in Hunts Point, Bronx, a two-and-a-half-acre green space that contains his burial site in a small enclosed cemetery, was named for him in 1915.[4] Buried here as well are members of the old local landowning families, notably the Hunts ("Hunts Point"), Leggetts, and Willets. This park has received $180,000 of New York State funding to memorialize slave workers who were thought to be buried there,[5] and the remains of up to 11 enslaved Africans were rediscovered in 2013-14 by local students from P.S. 48, also known as the Joseph Rodman Drake School.[6] Critical response In the early 19th century Americans numbered Drake and his friend Halleck as two of the leading literary personalities and talents produced by their country, but their reputations were short-lived. In April 1836, Edgar Allan Poe published a review of their work–known to Poe scholars as "The Drake-Halleck Review"– in the Southern Literary Messenger criticizing both, though he thought Drake the better of the two.[7] Poe's essay is as much a critique of the state of criticism at that time, objecting to the fact that "at this particular moment there are no American poems held in so high estimation by our countrymen, as the poems of Drake, and of Halleck." Looking at Drake's The Culprit Fay, a narrative poem of 640 lines, Poe found elements to praise but wrote that "the greater part of it is utterly destitute of any evidence of imagination whatever". He found Drake capable of description, but offered his view that description required little poetic ability and provided his own alternatives to show how simple this writing was. For Drakes' lines: He put his acorn helmet on; It was plumed of the silk of the thistle down: The corslet plate that guarded his breast Was once the wild bee's golden vest; His cloak of a thousand mingled dyes, Was formed of the wings of butterflies; His shield was the shell of a lady-bug queen, Studs of gold on a ground of green;* And the quivering lance which he brandished bright Was the sting of a wasp he had slain in fight. Poe offered: His blue-bell helmet, we have heard Was plumed with the down of the hummingbird, The corslet on his bosom bold Was once the locust's coat of gold, His cloak, of a thousand mingled hues, Was the velvet violet, wet with dews, His target was, the crescent shell Of the small sea Sidrophel, And a glittering beam from a maiden's eye Was the lance which he proudly wav'd on high. In Poe's view this ability creates "a species of vague wonder at the writer's ingenuity" in most readers, but Poe mocked it as an example of the "sublimely ridiculous" and "puerilities", requiring the reader to "imagine a race of Fairies in the vicinity of West Point" Definitions of fay noun a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers synonyms:faerie, faery, fairy, sprite brownie, elf, gremlin, hob, imp, pixie, pixy (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous fairy godmother a female character in some fairy stories who has magical powers and can bring unexpected good fortune to the hero or heroine dwarf, gnome a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure Morgan le Fay (Arthurian legend) a wicked enchantress who was the half sister and enemy of King Arthur Puck, Robin Goodfellow a mischievous sprite of English folklore Oberson (Middle Ages) the king of the fairies and husband of Titania in medieval folklore Titania (Middle Ages) the queen of the fairies in medieval folklore tooth fairy a fairy that is said to leave money at night under a child's pillow to compensate for a baby tooth falling out water nymph, water spirit, water sprite a fairy that inhabits water Nibelung (German mythology) any of the race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure hoard that was stolen by Siegfried undine any of various female water spirits leprechaun a mischievous elf in Irish folklore sandman an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy Andvari (Norse mythology) a dwarf who possessed a treasure that was stolen by Loki type of: spiritual being, supernatural being an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events Common terms and phrases arch of silver azure bade beach of sand beam beetle Beneath blade breast brine brow burnished charmed cheek clouds cobweb colen-bell courser crimson CULPRIT FAY dance earth earthly elfin court EX LIBRIS 95.3 eyes fair fairy ground fell fire-fly steed flew flings float glance glittering goblin haunted heaved heaven Hither hum-bird's javelin katy-did kissed lamp is quenched lance leap lightning's list and mark lovely LVX EX LIBRIS milky moon moonlight moony Naught o'er Ouphe prickly prong print the lea purple quenched and dark rock rolls round him cast Round the wild RUDD & CARLETON scallop shade shadowy snowy spark sprite squab stain star starry steed and spur stings stream strokes sturgeon swift sylphs thine elfin Thou hast Thou shalt Thy flame-wood lamp Thy wings tiny Tis the middle toad tread Twine ye UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vestal water-sprites wave welkin blue wild witch-hazel tree wind

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