10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARUSPICATE»
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haruspicate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Annotations to Geoffrey Hill's Speech! Speech!
Hill – like Rosenberg – must attest to these trivialities, “Haruspicate / over the
unmentionable” (specifically, the obvious manifestations of diarrhoea). Hill's
position when speaking of these soldiers (almost his contemporaries) is difficult;
born ...
2
A Companion to T. S. Eliot
Eliotmayhave hadthispassage in mindwhen he began the fifth section of“The
DrySalvages”: “To communicatewith Mars, converse with spirits, /Toreport the
behaviour of the seamonster, /Describe thehoroscope, haruspicate orscry” (CPP
135).
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Religion in English Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach
PART IV: SECRETS OF THE SPIRIT WORLD To communicate with Mars,
converse with spirits, To report the behaviour of the sea monster, Describe the
horoscope, haruspicate or scry. Observe disease in signatures, evoke Biography
from the ...
He sets to work, moreover, on a number of new hymns, prepares his translations
of Sophocles' Oedipus and Antigone for publication, and continues to
haruspicate Pindar's odes. Over the course of the next four years, under the ever-
mounting ...
Friedrich Hölderlin, 1984
But whether they haruspicate or cast a horoscope their signs have this peculiarity
that they are in a dictionary, even if not necessarily a written one. It does not
matter how esoteric the information that is handed down: he who searches out
the ...
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The Book of Samuel: Essays on Poetry and Imagination
I never tire of the word “satiety,” and I will never tire of Eliot's use in Four Quartets
of the phrase “haruspicate or scry.” The first thing I remarked on as I branched out
in my reading of contemporary poetry was that I could instantly detect the ...
7
An Integral View Of Poetry: An India Perspective
To 'haruspicate' is to 'divine by examining the entrails of animals'. 'Scrying' is '
crystal-gazing'. 'Sortilege' refers to the drawing of lots. A 'pentogram' is a five-
pointed star. This is learned poetry. But the authenticity of the poetry itself cannot
be ...
Vinayak Krishna Gokak, 1975
8
Authority Matters: Rethinking the Theory and Practice of ...
... too, T. S. Eliot satirically itemizes the self-appointed task of the daily paper as
being: To communicate with Mars, converse with spirits, To report the behaviour
of the sea monster, Describe the horoscope, haruspicate or scry, Observe
disease ...
Stephen Donovan, Danuta Zadworna-Fjellestad, Rolf Lundén, 2008
9
Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing
I began—she was on the sofa knitting and I at the table doing my homework— ' . .
. converse with spirits, To report the behaviour of the sea monster, Describe the
horoscope, haruspicate or scry, Observe disease in signatures . . . I had chosen ...
10
Transcendence and History: The Search for Ultimacy from ...
In Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot presents a catalog of popular antidotes to the burden
of historical contingency: To communicate with Mars, converse with spirits, To
report the behaviour of the sea monster, Describe the horoscope, haruspicate or
...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARUSPICATE»
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The Guts of Spring
In the section on divination in “The Dry Salvages,” T. S. Eliot writes: “Describe the horoscope, haruspicate or scry.” In an earlier draft, he had ... «The New York Review of Books, Apr 15»
