| Robert C. Solomon - 1999 - 172 pages
...the customer, there was nothing else we could do, nothing.") Byron, in his epic poem Don Juan, wrote, "I want a hero, an uncommon want / When every year and month sends forth a new one." We understand all too easily the nature of that complaint. The business world is filled with temporary... | |
| Kenneth Tucker - 2000 - 216 pages
...kill the bookkeeper Ness must locate in order to convict Capone. CHAPTER EIGHT The Need for a Hero I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and...cant, The age discovers he is not the true one:... Lord Byron, Don Juan (1.1. 1-4) Why the continuing fascination with Eliot Ness? When he died in 1957,... | |
| Rick Wallach - 2000 - 420 pages
...Wolf. Charles Bailey The last stage of the hero's evolution: Cormac McCarthy's Cities of the Plain I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. (Byron, Don Juan, Canto the First lines 1—4) In my youth's summer I did sing of One, The wandering... | |
| Peter Johnson - 2001 - 80 pages
...reply, "Oh, darling, pretty, good, nice, clever, sweet darling. . . ." Part II Travels with Oedipus I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one: — Lord Byron, Don Juan — Still there is some good, said Candide. — That may be, said Martin,... | |
| Paul Ashdown, Edward Caudill - 2002 - 278 pages
...dragons, although mostly in distant Virginia. Maybe I remembered Byron's lines from Don Juan: Xlll I want a hero: an uncommon want When every year and...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. Contemplating heroes, myths, and Mosby during this outre midnight amble, I came up with the idea for... | |
| Julian Barnes - 2007 - 242 pages
...bedroom cupboard. I want to be scattered with him. I want us to fly away on the wind together. Oliver I want a. hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after doying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. To want is to wish, and also... | |
| Theodore Ziolkowski - 2004 - 196 pages
...opening the first canto of Donjuán (1819), written exactly twenty years after Schiller's Wallenstein, an uncommon want, When every year and month sends...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. We miss the point if we take it simply as a joke when Byron decides to turn to "our ancient friend... | |
| Miriam B. Mandel - 2004 - 376 pages
..."the age" when the much-heralded "hero" fails to deliver: I want a hero, an uncommon want, When even' year and month sends forth a new one, Till after cloying...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. (1.1.1-4) Hemingway was keenly aware of the human need for "a hero," and in Spain's taurine public,... | |
| Drummond Bone - 2004 - 340 pages
...conflagration of republican freedom. It might be thought that the opening words of Don Juan's first canto ('I want a hero: an uncommon want, / When every year and month sends forth a new one') announce a new turn in Byron's poetry, a reversal into a quizzical and sceptical mode. But there is... | |
| Christopher Flynn - 2008 - 180 pages
...uncertainty of the times has made heroism an ephemeral quality, Byron suggests in the opening to Don Juan: 1 want a hero, an uncommon want, When every year and...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one (1:1, 1-4). He quickly dismisses a host of would-be heroes, including "Vernon, the butcher Cumberland,... | |
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