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"King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid", 1880-84, Oil on canvas, 112 1/2 x 53 1/2 in (290 x 136 cm), signed EBJ 1884 ... Scanned from Wildman, Stephen: Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998, ISBN 0870998595 ... The King and the Beggar-maid...
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; Cophetua was a merry King, And slightly sentimental; His morals were (if anything); What some call "Oriental." ... And Mrs. King Cophetua made; All parties quit their vices, And Papa's private lemonade; Soon rose to fancy prices,
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King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid from The Book of Legends by Horace E. Scudder ... KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR MAID ... But one day, as King Cophetua was riding out to hunt with his nobles, there stood by the wayside a blind old man, and by his side was his daughter, a young maid, in poor clothing. They were beggars,
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A princely wight did raine, Who had to name Cophetua, As poets they did faine. From natures lawes he did decline, For sure he was not of my minde, He cared not for women-kind; But did them all disdaine. But marke what hapned on a day; ... This silly woman was the last; That after them did hye. The king he cal'd her back againe,
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King Cophetua, Julien Gracq (Ingeborg M. Kohn trans.). Turtle Point Press, 2003. 96pp, 12.95 When I think of the time that marks the end of my youth ... King Cophetua, Julien Gracq (Ingeborg M. Kohn trans.). Turtle Point Press, 2003. 96pp, 12.95...
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"Mr. Gracq's is one of the more stimulating and original imaginations in contemporary French literature." --The New York Times Book Review~The narrator of King Cophetua, a former soldier, recalls the events surrounding his arrival at the home of his friend Jacques Nueil, an aviator and avant-garde composer.
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www.amazon.com/King-Cophetua-Julien-Gracq/dp/1885586868
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Sir Edward Burne-Jone ... King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid Edward Burne-Jones, 1884 ... Burne-Jones - King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid...
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Famous Paintings,King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid by Sir Edward Oley Burne-Jones ... King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid ; By Sir Edward Oley Burne-Jones (1833-1898); In the Tate Gallery, London ; In this picture, considered by many critics to be his finest work, the painter has realised on canvas an immortal story which...
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it is a moment of magic when time is stopped and the world is transmuted into an eternal stillness" (141). King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid, in other words, provides a painterly version of the Rossettian perfect moment of frozen time captured in "Silent Noon," "The Woodspurge," and other poems.
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