"He [Good King Bacchus] does the chaos of the head refine, / And atom-thoughts jump into words by wine"
— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
1701, 1703
Metaphor
"He [Good King Bacchus] does the chaos of the head refine, / And atom-thoughts jump into words by wine"
Metaphor in Context
Poets long since Parnassus have forsaken,
And say the ancient bards were all mistaken.
Apollo's lately abdicate and fled.
And good king Bacchus reigneth in his stead:
He does the chaos of the head refine,
And atom-thoughts jump into words by wine:
The inspiration's of a finer nature,
As wine must needs excel Parnassus water.
(Part II, p. 39, ll. 491-498)
And say the ancient bards were all mistaken.
Apollo's lately abdicate and fled.
And good king Bacchus reigneth in his stead:
He does the chaos of the head refine,
And atom-thoughts jump into words by wine:
The inspiration's of a finer nature,
As wine must needs excel Parnassus water.
(Part II, p. 39, ll. 491-498)
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At least 56 entries in ESTC (1701, 1702, 1703, 1704, 1708, 1710, 1711, 1713, 1716, 1717, 1721, 1728, 1730, 1731, 1733, 1740, 1743, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1754, 1755, 1765, 1767, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1777, 1778, 1780, 1784, 1786, 1788, 1790, 1795).
See The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr. ([London?]: [s.n.], 1701). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
See also A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-Man. Corrected By Himself. (London: Printed, and are to be sold by most booksellers in London and Westminster, 1703). <Link to LION>
Over 20 editions in Defoe's lifetime. Also issued as part of: A Collection of the Best English Poetry, by Several Hands, London, 1717. See also 1731 printing "Corrected and enlarg'd by the author" <Link to ESTC>
Reading Daniel Defoe. The True-Born Englishman and Other Writings. Ed. P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens (New York: Penguin Books, 1997).
See The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr. ([London?]: [s.n.], 1701). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
See also A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-Man. Corrected By Himself. (London: Printed, and are to be sold by most booksellers in London and Westminster, 1703). <Link to LION>
Over 20 editions in Defoe's lifetime. Also issued as part of: A Collection of the Best English Poetry, by Several Hands, London, 1717. See also 1731 printing "Corrected and enlarg'd by the author" <Link to ESTC>
Reading Daniel Defoe. The True-Born Englishman and Other Writings. Ed. P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens (New York: Penguin Books, 1997).
Date of Entry
06/08/2010
