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Howl, Allen Ginsberg
"Howl" Allen Ginsberg
The following entry represents criticism of Ginsberg's poem "Howl" through 2000. See also Allen Ginsberg Literary Criticism (Introduction), and Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 13, 109.
Allen Ginsberg was one of the most popular and celebrated American poets of the twentieth century. His first published work, Howl and Other Poems, became the focal point of a landmark obscenity trial in 1957 that drew attention to San Francisco as a center of cultural revolution in the literary arts. The first public reading of the poem took place in October 1955 at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. This famous performance established Ginsberg as a prominent voice in the antiestablishment Beat movement of the 1950s.
Biographical Information
Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926. His mother, Naomi, suffered from various mental illnesses and was periodically institutionalized, sometimes for several years at a time. Ginsberg's father, Louis, was a teacher and lyric poet. He tried to compensate for an unstable family life with an atmosphere of strict discipline. Ginsberg endured an emotionally troubled adolescence that was complicated by the confusion and isolation he felt as he became increasingly aware of his homosexuality. Ginsberg was introduced to poetry by his father and was influenced by literary mentors including William Carlos Williams, who lived nearby in Paterson, New Jersey, where Ginsberg attended high school. Ginsberg's literary influences also included Lionel Trilling and Mark Van Doren, with whom he studied at Columbia University, and his New York literary peers Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Along with Kenneth Rexroth and Robert Duncan, Kerouac, Burroughs, Cassady, and Ginsberg would later become the core of the Beat movement. Ginsberg remained a champion and iconic figure of the counterculture throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and became active in antinuclear protest later years. He died in 1997.
Textual History
"Howl" was first introduced during a poetry reading on October 13, 1955, at Six Gallery in San Francisco. West Coast poets in attendance included Beat generation figures Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen. Ginsberg was a visitor from the East Coast, and his impassioned and uninhibited reading of "Howl," a long poem that broke with convention, became the highlight of the event. During the coming year Ginsberg continued to revise the poem, and it was published in Howl and Other Poems in October 1956 by City Lights Books, a San Francisco bookstore and publishing house owned by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Law enforcement authorities soon seized and banned all unsold copies of the book and charged Ferlinghetti with the distribution of obscene material. The subsequent trial drew national attention to the cultural revolution that was taking place on the west coast in the 1950s. Judge Clayton W. Horn acquitted Ferlinghetti in 1957, ruling that the poem was not obscene. In the aftermath, Ferlinghetti wrote, "It is not the poet but what he observes which is revealed as obscene."
Major Themes
"Howl" is part vision, part angry lament, a raw denunciation of American society's shortcomings, as seen through the eyes of Ginsberg. Opening with a run-on sentence that expresses the poet's despair for himself and his generation, the poem is divided into three sections and contains a "Footnote" that critics generally consider to be a functional "Part IV" of the work, although it wasn't so-named by the poet. Part I chronicles the desperation felt during the post-World War II era by those who felt alienated by the mechanization and intellectual conformity that they felt American society demanded. Although much of Part I is autobiographical, the personal nature of the work does not minimize the poem's effectiveness. Rather, it serves to communicate a universal longing for escape from confinement and oppression. Notable structural characteristics include repetitive, incantatory phrases and run-on sentences.
Part II of "Howl," written while Ginsberg was under the influence of the drug peyote, seeks to name the roots of human misery and discontent. In the character of Moloch, a Philistine god to whom children are sacrificed by the power-hungry, Ginsberg personifies the causes of social ills, as he sees them: government bureaucracy, conformity, materialism, technology. Moloch, a malevolent "judger of men," destroys the best of human nature, inciting self-doubt and fear in the hearts and souls of those who would reject his ways.
In Part III of "Howl," Ginsberg seeks to balance the destruction and despair of the first two parts in what is acknowledged to be a personal tribute to the poet's friend Carl Solomon, whom Ginsberg had met during several months of treatment at a psychiatric institution. While maintaining his stance of protest against the aspects of American society that he holds responsible for crippling the spirit of a generation, Ginsberg nonetheless demonstrates in this section an underlying desire for reconciliation with the country of his birth and citizenship: "we hug and kiss the United States under our bedsheets the United States that coughs all night and won't let us sleep." The mood of Part III is one of grudging acknowledgment that certain painful aspects of life will not be easily rectified or eliminated but that the communal and individual fight is worthwhile and valiant.
The "Footnote to 'Howl'" chronicles a vision of unification for both society and the individual torn by conflicting cultural forces. Although it was suggested by early critics that the "Footnote" was added by Ginsberg simply to soften public criticism toward the first sections of the poem, later critical opinion favors the position that the last section is an integral, inseparable part of the entire work. In the four parts of "Howl," Ginsberg progresses from angry protest and desperate lamentation to acceptance of certain realities, balanced with a visionary insistence that the future can hold the promise of wholeness and integrity.
Critical Reception
Ginsberg's "Howl" became one of the most widely read poems of the second half of the twentieth century. In part this was due to Ginsberg's role as a 1950s champion of causes later embraced by the 1960s counterculture: freedom from sexual repression and traditional behavior; freedom to engage in recreational drug use; rejection of authority and censorship; rejection of the military-industrial complex. The poem assumed the status of gospel to those who found in it a voice that expressed their youthful angst and disillusionment.
Although they generally underestimated its eventual influence and often disliked its form, subject matter, and graphic language, early reviewers predicted that "Howl" would achieve a certain landmark status as a touchstone of the Beat movement's poetic expression. Critic John Hollander, while characterizing Howl and Other Poems in 1957 as a "dreadful little volume" and a "very tiresome book," acknowledged that Ginsberg's "hopped-up and improvised tone" would be likely to enjoy a degree of celebrity. The same year, M. L. Rosenthal wrote of Ginsberg's "Howl": "He has brought a terrible psychological reality to the surface with enough originality to blast American verse a hair's-breadth forward in the process … very simply, this is poetry of genuine suffering."
Critical opinion of the work has evolved in the decades since it challenged the sensibilities of mainstream literary critics. In 1957, Michael Rumaker characterized "Howl" as being the victim of "hysterical language" and "nonexact vocabulary." In 1983, Rumaker reconsidered his initial assessment and acknowledged that he had written "largely out of resistance to this new, shrill and unknown voice howling outloud what I, and many others of the time, only mentioned in oblique and cynical whispers." Perhaps the most lucid early commentary on the poem, which also served as a testament to its right to be considered a valid contribution to contemporary American literature, came not from a literary critic but from Judge Clayton Horn, who made the determination that "Howl" should not be categorized as obscene. Horn wrote, "'Howl' presents a picture of a nightmare world; the second part is an indictment of those elements in modern society destructive of the best qualities of human nature. … The third part presents a picture of an individual who is a specific representation of what the author conceives as a general condition. … 'Footnote to "Howl"' seems to be a declaration that everything in the world is holy, including parts of the body by name. It ends in a plea for holy living. …"
Principal Works
Howl and Other Poems 1956; also published as Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions [revised edition] 1986
Siesta in Xbalba and Return to the States 1956
Empty Mirror: Early Poems 1961
Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960 1961
The Change 1963
Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960 1963
Kral Majales 1965
Wichita Vortex Sutra 1966
T.V. Baby Poems 1967
Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals 1968
Ankor Wat [with Alexander Lawrence] 1968
The Heat Is a Clock 1968
Message II 1968
Planet News 1968
Scrap Leaves, Tasty Scribbles 1968
Wales—A Visitation, July 29, 1967 1968
The Moments Return: A Poem 1970
For the Soul of the Planet Is Wakening … 1970
Ginsberg's Improvised Poetics 1971
Bixby Canyon Ocean Path Word Breeze 1972
Iron Horse 1972
New Year Blues 1972
Open Head 1972
The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971 1972
The Gates of Wrath: Rhymed Poems, 1948-1952 1972
First Blues: Rags, Ballads, and Harmonium Songs, 1971-1974 1975
Sad Dust Glories: Poems during Work Summer in Woods, 1974 1975
Mind Breaths: Poems, 1972-1977 1978
Poems All over the Place: Mostly Seventies 1978
Careless Love: Two Rhymes 1978
Mostly Sitting Haiku 1978; revised and expanded 1979
Plutonian Ode 1982
Collected Poems: 1947-1980 1984
White Shroud: Poems, 1980-1985 1986
Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems, 1986-1992 1994
Illuminated Poems 1996
Selected Poems, 1947-1995 1996
Death and Fame: Poems, 1993-1997 1999
The Yage Letters [with William Burroughs] (correspondence) 1963
Indian Journals: March 1962-May 1963; Notebooks, Diary, Blank Pages, Writings (journals) 1970
Notes after an Evening with William Carlos Williams (nonfiction) 1970
Kaddish (play) 1972
The Visions of the Great Rememberer (correspondence) 1974
Allen Verbatim: Lectures of Poetry, Politics, and Consciousness (lectures) 1975
Chicago Trial Testimony (nonfiction) 1975
To Eberhart from Ginsberg (correspondence) 1976
Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties (journals) 1977
Composed on the Tongue (interviews) 1980
Snapshot Poetics: Allen Ginsberg's Photographic Memoir of the Beat Era (photographs) 1993
Honorable Courtship: From the Author's Journals (journals) 1994
Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays, 1958-1996 (essays) 2000
M. L. Rosenthal (review date 23 February 1957)
SOURCE: Rosenthal, M. L. "Poet of the New Violence." The Nation 184, no. 8 (23 February 1957): 162.
[In the following review, Rosenthal finds some fault with Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems but considers his poetry original.]
The two most striking pieces in Allen Ginsberg's pamphlet Howl and Other Poems—the long title-piece itself and "America"—are sustained shrieks of frank defiance. The themes are struck off clearly in the opening lines of each:
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked …
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing....
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John Hollander (review date spring 1957)
SOURCE: Hollander, John. "Poetry Chronicle." Partisan Review 24, no. 2 (spring 1957): 296-8.
[In the following excerpt, Hollander describes Howl and Other Poems as both "tiresome" and exemplifying real talent.]
It is only fair to Allen Ginsberg, however, to remark on the utter lack of decorum of any kind in his dreadful little volume [Howl]. I believe that the title of his long poem, "Howl," is meant to be a noun, but I can't help taking it as an imperative. The poem itself is a confession of the poet's faith, done into some 112 paragraph-like lines, in the ravings of a lunatic friend (to whom it is dedicated), and in the irregularities in the...
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Michael Rumaker (essay date fall 1957)
SOURCE: "Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl.'" In On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg, edited by Lewis Hyde, pp. 36-40. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1984.
[In the following essay, part of which was first published in 1957, Rumaker discusses "Howl." This original material is accompanied by a 1983 updated comment by the critic.]
The language of "Howl" is curiously "materialistic." I mean it is quantitative (a quantity of verbiage) without reference to quality. I speak later of fever in this poem and I think it's that: the feelings are not precise (are an onrush of emotional bulk) and therefore the words, the language, cannot be precise. The abstractions...
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti (essay date winter 1957)
SOURCE: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. "Horn on 'Howl.'" Evergreen Review 1, no. 4 (winter 1957): 145-58.
[In the following essay, Ferlinghetti gives an account of the charges that were levied against him for publishing and selling obscene writings and his subsequent San Francisco trial, after he published the first U.S. edition of Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems.]
Fahrenheit 451, the temperature at which books burn, has finally been determined not to be the prevailing temperature at San Francisco, though the police still would be all too happy to make it hot for you. On October 3 last, Judge Clayton Horn of Municipal Court brought in a 39-page opinion finding...
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Kenneth Rexroth (essay date 1957)
SOURCE: Rexroth, Kenneth. "San Francisco Letter." In On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg, edited by Lewis Hyde, pp. 32-33. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1984.
[In the following essay, which was first published in 1957, Rexroth, a popular poet often called "Godfather of the Beats," lauds Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" as "more than the most sensational book of poetry of 1957."]
Allen Ginsberg's Howl is much more than the most sensational book of poetry of 1957. Nothing goes to show how square the squares are so much as the favorable reviews they've given it. "Sustained shrieks of frantic defiance," "single-minded frenzy of a raving...
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George Bowering (essay date 1969)
SOURCE: Bowering, George. "How I Hear 'Howl.'" In On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg, edited by Lewis Hyde, pp. 370-78. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1984.
[In the following essay, which was first published in 1969, Bowering discusses the experience of listening to a recording of Ginsberg's spoken version of "Howl."]
(Poetry is a vocal art. In the following impression of Allen Ginsberg's poem, I will refer not so much to the printed versions as to his spoken version on the Fantasy LP 7005, Howl and Other Poems.)
… The central image of "Howl" is the "robot skullface of Moloch," the mechanical monolith that eats the...
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James Breslin (essay date spring 1977)
SOURCE: Breslin, James. "Allen Ginsberg: The Origins of 'Howl' and 'Kaddish.'" The Iowa Review 8, no. 2 (spring 1977): 82-108.
[In the following essay, Breslin explores Ginsberg's life experiences as they are reflected in the subject matter and tone of "Howl" and "Kaddish," two of Ginsberg's best known poems.]
Most literary people have probably first become aware of Allen Ginsberg through the media, in his self-elected and controversial role as public figure and prophet of a new age. Ginsberg's public personality has changed over the years—from the defiant and histrionic angry young man of the fifties to the bearded and benign patriarch and...
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William A. Henry III (essay date December 1981)
SOURCE: Henry, William A., III. "In New York: 'Howl' Becomes a Hoot." In On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg, edited by Lewis Hyde, pp. 367-69. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1984.
[In the following essay, which first appeared in 1981, Henry describes an early 1980s public reading of "Howl" by poet Allen Ginsberg.]
Night, the hour of poets, on a windy street in the part of New York City where academe meets Harlem. Outside a nondescript building, a man calls to an acquaintance. The second replies, "Allen Ginsberg reading 'Howl'? It's tempting, but …" He walks on.
Inside McMillin Theater at Columbia University, an audience of...
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Jeff Gaydos (essay date 18 January 1987)
SOURCE: Gaydos, Jeff. "The 'New' Ginsberg: Still Full of Life." Detroit News (18 January 1987): 9B.
[In the following essay, Gaydos reviews the anniversary edition of "Howl" and comments on the simultaneous release of Ginsberg's collection, White Shroud, Poems 1980-1985.]
The "beat generation" has been caricatured and romanticized as much or more than most quirky ripples in the flow of human behavior. And as with most "movements" that become diluted as they get washed through the American mainstream, it's tough to keep a perspective on its value to American life.
You find a set of bongo drums in the attic, think of black...
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Michael Leddy (essay date autumn 1987)
SOURCE: Leddy, Michael. "Verse." World Literature Today 61, no. 4 (autumn 1987): 630-31.
[In the following essay, Leddy reviews a thirtieth-anniversary facsimile edition of "Howl."]
"It is a rare occasion when a living author illuminates the creative process behind his work," says the dust jacket of the thirtieth-anniversary annotated facsimile edition of Howl. For once a dust jacket is guilty of understatement: the generosity with which Ginsberg illuminates his text is unprecedented. He and editor Barry Miles have assembled all significant drafts of the poem, reproduced with copious new annotations by Ginsberg concerning composition and revision,...
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Thomas F. Merrill (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: Merrill, Thomas F. "Howl and Other Poems." In Allen Ginsberg, revised edition, pp. 50-69. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988.
[In the following essay, Merrill offers an examination of Ginsberg's "Howl" and other works.]
Despite the fact that it has been fashionable to say that Howl exploded on the American literary scene like a bombshell, that San Francisco finally "turned Ginsberg on," and that this poem heralded in the Beat Generation, it is difficult to find in this admittedly extraordinary poem much that has not been anticipated in inchoate and sometimes even mature form in Empty...
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Alicia Ostriker (essay date July-August 1997)
SOURCE: Ostriker, Alicia. "'Howl' Revisited: The Poet as Jew." American Poetry Review 26, no. 4 (July-August 1997): 28-31.
[In the following essay, Ostriker considers the influence of cultural and religious Judaism on Allen Ginsberg and his works.]
I have reverenced Allen Ginsberg—man and poet—for three decades, and see no reason to stop now. The first time I met Allen I was amazed, as this essay suggests, by his voice: the power and sweetness and humor of it. His breath, I thought, was the breath of the spirit. The last time was the same, but more so. We were at the Dodge Poetry Festival in Waterloo, N.J., in the soft weather of early fall, 1996. At...
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Tony Trigilio (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Trigilio, Tony. "'Sanity a Trick of Agreement': Madness and Doubt in Ginsberg's Prophetic Poetry." In "Strange Prophecies Anew": Rereading Apocalypse in Blake, H. D., and Ginsberg, pp.125-27. Teaneck, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000.
[In the following essay Trigilio explores the relationship between the prophetic language in the poems "Howl" and "Kaddish" and experiences of psychiatric institutionalization in the poet's personal and family history.]
In 1943, the young Allen Ginsberg traveled by ferry from his home in Paterson, New Jersey, to...
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Further Reading
Caveney, Graham. Screaming with Joy: The Life of Allen Ginsberg. London: Bloomsbury, 1999, 216 p.
Documentary of Ginsberg's life and passions, featuring more than 150 photographs and illustrations.
Tytell, John. Paradise Outlaws: Remembering the Beats. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1999, 226 p.
A first-person, conversational overview of the lives, works, and interactions of the poets of the Beat generation.
McClure, Michael. "Moloch's Poet: A Retrospective Look at Allen Ginsberg's Poetry." American Poetry Review 11, no. 5...
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Pete - I am not using fresh manure. I am using a composted, dehydrated product made for mass production.John
Yes, I understood that. I was just pointing out the dangers in the rare case that the composted manure was not processed properly by the manufacturer resulting in small amouts of E.coli or other unhealthy bacteria.I'm also thinking, just to be extra safe, on any plants sprayed with the tea manure, it would be best to cook the tomatoes as opposed to eating them raw. Then reserve a few plants by NOT spraying them and use those for raw tomato consumption. ---pete---
Norma - my wife's uncle lives in rural New Hampshire, and he has a garden that dwarfs my backyard. He has been gardening for 40 plus years and has been feeding 4 generations of family members off his produce. He puts nearly fresh horse manure in the soil, as has generations before him. No one has ever become sick with e coli. I think the problem Pete and I are discussing is applying the manure directly to fruit on the plant, which brings up some issues about actually eating the fruit. John


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From an EmailPosted Friday, February 10, 2012, at 2:32 PM
With such discontent abounding, I thought I'd share something that we can all agree to agree on.
Here is something Every American should know. Until I read this, I didn't know, but I checked it out and it's true: We in the United States have all heard the haunting song,
'Taps...' It's the song that gives us the lump in our throats and usually tears in our eyes.
But, do you know the story behind the song? If not, I think you will be interested to find out about its humble beginnings. Reportedly, it all began in 1862 during the Civil War, when Union Army Captain Robert Elli was with his men near Harrison's Landing in Virginia . The Confederate Army was on the other side of the narrow strip of land.
During the night, Captain Elli heard the moans of a soldier who lay severely wounded on the field. Not knowing if it was a Union or Confederate soldier, the Captain decided to risk his life and bring the stricken man back for medical attention. Crawling on his stomach through the gunfire, the Captain reached the stricken soldier and began pulling him toward his encampment.. When the Captain finally reached his own lines, he discovered it was actually a Confederate soldier, but the soldier was dead. The Captain lit a lantern and suddenly caught his breath and went numb with shock. In the dim light, he saw the face of the soldier. It was his own son. The boy had been studying music in the South when the war broke out.. Without telling his father, the boy enlisted in the Confederate Army. The following morning, heartbroken, the father asked permission of his superiors to give his son a full military burial, despite his enemy status. His request was only partially granted. The Captain had asked if he could have a group of Army band members play a funeral dirge for his son at the funeral. The request was turned down since the soldier was a Confederate. But, out of respect for the father, they did say they could give him only one musician.
The Captain chose a bugler. He asked the bugler to play a series of musical notes he had found on a piece of paper in the pocket of the dead youth's uniform. This wish was granted. The haunting melody, we now know as 'Taps' used at military funerals was born. The words are:
Day is done. Gone the sun.
Fading light. Dims the sight.
Thanks and praise. For our days.
I too have felt the chills while listening to 'Taps' but I have never seen all the words to the song until now. I didn't even know there was more than one verse . I also never knew the story behind the song and I didn't know if you had either so I thought I'd pass it along. I now have an even deeper respect for the song than I did before. Remember Those Lost and Harmed While Serving Their Country.
Also Remember Those Who Have Served And Returned; and for those presently serving in the Armed Forces.
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Thanks for sharing the story behind this song. I have to walk out a room even if it is played on TV. Knowing the story behind the song might make it more bearable.
-- Posted by farsela sotto on Fri, Feb 10, 2012, at 3:19 PM
Until I read this, I didn't know, but I checked it out and it's true:
You need to read:
We are offering a gold plated bugle to anyone who can prove this story!
-- Posted by tapsbugler on Fri, Feb 10, 2012, at 3:27 PM
Bugler, if this is NOT true & it's offensive to you, I do apologize.
However ... my purpose wax only to leave a good feel feeling.
When I posted it, I thought "At least no controversy here!"
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Fri, Feb 10, 2012, at 3:56 PM
Partly amazed tapsbugler found this so fast!
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Fri, Feb 10, 2012, at 3:57 PM
Jessie, I'm sure you meant well. There are some of us out here that whenever we see "I checked it out and it's true" the "BS" light comes on because of all the scam emails floating around. We mean no disrespect.
-- Posted by BigRedYeti on Fri, Feb 10, 2012, at 4:47 PM
I got it in an email, so I never "checked it out and Irs true" said that in the title. Whether I like something or not, I don't claim it's mine.
I just liked it.
I take no offence ... just have a good weekend!
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Fri, Feb 10, 2012, at 5:24 PM
God willing I have heard TAPS played for the last time in my family, but here lately, I'm not so sure.
-- Posted by royincaldwell on Fri, Feb 10, 2012, at 5:32 PM
Buckshot, if Wayne were at it again, you would know it!
-- Posted by royincaldwell on Fri, Feb 10, 2012, at 7:40 PM
"The true story is that in July 1862, after the Seven Days battles at Harrison's Landing (near Richmond), Virginia, the wounded Commander of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, V Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, General Daniel Butterfield reworked, with his bugler Oliver Wilcox Norton, another bugle call, "Scott Tattoo," to create Taps. He thought that the regular call for Lights Out was too formal. Taps was adopted throughout the Army of the Potomac and finally confirmed by orders. Soon other Union units began using Taps, and even a few Confederate units began using it as well. After the war, Taps became an official bugle call. Col. James A. Moss, in his Officer's Manual first published in 1911, gives an account of the initial use of Taps at a military funeral:"
"During the Peninsular Campaign in 1862, a soldier of Tidball's Battery A of the 2nd Artillery was buried at a time when the battery occupied an advanced position concealed in the woods. It was unsafe to fire the customary three volleys over the grave, on account of the proximity of the enemy, and it occurred to Capt. Tidball that the sounding of Taps would be the most appropriate ceremony that could be substituted."
Still a good story!
-- Posted by IdahoFrank on Fri, Feb 10, 2012, at 8:02 PM
any feel-good story is welcome. I enjoyed it. They might just make a life-time movie out of the whole thing. Everyone will think it is true then.
Thank you.
-- Posted by KH Gal on Fri, Feb 10, 2012, at 10:15 PM
Thanks! Bonnie, that's all I thought!
I don't think it is a bad story, it'd make a movie for sure!
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Fri, Feb 10, 2012, at 10:21 PM
Buckshot, when Wayne shows up and is deleted, the comment counts are different. Go back and look at other blogs where his posts were deleted. The most glaring count difference is Mikes blog who is this guy. 148 vs 142.
-- Posted by royincaldwell on Sat, Feb 11, 2012, at 12:10 AM
Buckshot, what have I done lately to defend Wayne? Since I've made sure you know his name, why don't you use it? Just questions.
-- Posted by royincaldwell on Sat, Feb 11, 2012, at 7:21 AM
I see by the counts, Wayne showed up on my blog. Such is life. He is not my child and I can't control what he does. I was working, so I didn't even see what he wrote. For some reason you seem to be taking Wayne's behavior out on me. Why?
-- Posted by royincaldwell on Sat, Feb 11, 2012, at 7:25 AM
No disrespect meant at all
Hope you had a chance to read the article:
It pretty much talks about how the myth came about and who was responsible for starting it.
The myth is quite heart wrenching and evokes emotion but the true story is far more interesting because of the two men involved and their subsequent contributions to our nation. The true story would make a much better movie than the myth.
For any true believers of this myth, there is a prize of a $2000 gold plated bugle to anyone who can prove the story.
For anyone interested the 150th anniversary of Taps will be commemorated this year. More info at
-- Posted by tapsbugler on Thu, Feb 16, 2012, at 12:12 PM
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Schwartz's for lunch with my Other Half, Michele, and my BFF, Amy. Montreal smoked meat is like pastrami, and it's best at Schwartz's, an old Jewish deli with large chunks of the meat in the window. Crowds wait in line all day to eat at the little tables. When you order a sandwich, you're asked "lean, medium, or fat?" I opt for medium, comes on rye with mustard and a giant pickle. I walked back down St Laurent and the Hill, the walk a payback to my body for ingesting so much meat ...
Eating, walking around, hanging with some of my favorite people in the world, especially all the loveable kids in the press room, is why I come every year. And the music ...
M. le Juge was back judging at 6 a sextet called The Odd Lot, playing free funk with a ferocious tenor player. I also heard a piano trio called Indigone Trio. Even though they were all reading charts, the interplay sounded (and felt) spontaneous, especially in the rhythmic effects of the drummer. Both of these groups I felt are in the running for the prizes, but I have 7 more groups yet to judge.
Brad Mehldau played a solo recital in the Jesus Room (salle de Gesu), mostly standards ("No Moon at All," "Secret Love," "Airegin," "God Only Knows") with flabbergasting chops. I appreciated how he de-constructed melodies, but every song turned into a display of rambling and rumbling, virtuosic but exhausting.
1st trip to Pizzadelic: chevre et noix (goat cheese, walnuts, black olives, tomatoes, mozzarella) and siciliana (various Italian meat) ...
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Starting at 9 a.m. local time, more than 200 matches will be played today as some of the world's best para-badminton exponents begin their hunt for titles across the six sport classes into which they have been placed for this tournament.
Keen to get on court, athletes enjoyed an extremely busy day yesterday as all 38 participating countries had lengthy practice sessions. It was a veritable United Nations inside Helmut-Koernig Hall (centre above), with Malaysia training alongside Columbia; Scotland next to Australia; England hitting opposite Brazil (BWF home page); and Uganda and Boznia Herzegovina sharing a court.
Competitors in Short Stature mixed with their peers in the Wheelchair and Standing categories (centre below: players practising). Players displayed fantastic ability and shot-making despite various disabilities. Once again, the atmosphere and anticipation strongly hinted this event will be the highest quality para-badminton tournament yet staged. Eleven courts – one more than originally planned – have been set up; a portable wooden floor providing a perfect surface for five wheelchair courts. Six traditional Hova courts are available for matches in the other four sport classes.
Meanwhile, the marathon classification procedure – which commenced on Tuesday – was completed just before lunch after which team managers and technical staff confirmed the entries and classes and the main draw was done (centre below).
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From interviews it's clear Yuzuru has been "prescribed" detailed training plans to pace him, to strengthen him, and to prevent overuse injuries. Bumping into the door at 4CC... well was a fluke accident.
Party on.
Orser mentioned couple of times before how much important to keep Yuzuru healthy. And we all see he stressed in the interview again health management is crucial to Yuzuru, particularly facing to next big season.
FYI physical training's a part of Yuzuru's training plan since Yuzuru came to Toronto last year. In postgame interview of FS Worlds 2013, Yuzuru explained again what he has been through after 4CC, his injury etc. He said stamina still bothers him a lot, he will develop his physical strength and stay healthy to face next season's challenges. For what he learn from Fs Worlds 2013, he believes practice is important and what he received from one year hard practice will not lose in one month.
Orser also said in Yahoo news report, I sent off him with telling Practice will never fail to reward you!
Yes, we all saw the results. Practice will never fail to reward Yuzuru, specially with his amazing talent. Every test he conquers always drive him to grow up more, one step after another, I really look forward to see that day comes, Yuzuru reaches to Unbeatable Yuzuru Hanyu, to quote his own words, 'Now I'm only about 30% and I think I'm full of possibilities. I, myself also feel interesting to see how much I could develop myself in the future .'
Yuzuru candidly admitted he trained Quads too hard without Brian after 4CC, so nothing secretly, he just took the decision and the responsibility ( as he did in Nov-Dec. When trained alone in Japan before GPS and JN) to disobey his coach and his prescribed details plans...
honestly theres no sign of contrition in Yuzus words since he said hes pretty happy he did his best - and much better than 4 CC FS -and he really did it considering his miserable physical condition....
He only said he should have taken a slower start!!
Party on
Be more clear, I'll put YouTube link here, there was Yuzuru's post game interview at final.
In postgame interview of FS Worlds 2013, Yuzuru explained again what he has been through after 4CC, his injury etc. He said stamina still bothers him a lot, he will develop his physical strength and stay healthy to face next season's challenges. For what he learn from Fs Worlds 2013, he believes practice is important and what he received from one year hard practice will not lose in one month.
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Yuzuru Hanyu 羽生結弦選手 (JPN), 2012 World bronze medalist
I am quite satisfied with my program. I put everything I am capable of at this important time into my program. I appreciate everyone and everything for this experience.
I touched my knee and my ankle at the end of my program to thank them for supporting me.
After Four Continents I became ill and I missed 10 days of practice. Once I was better I went to training too hard without Brian (Orser). I should have taken a slow start, but I trained too hard, did quad toe and quad Salchow. So I injured my left knee (ligament injury), but I am pretty happy I did my best.
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This fan has kindly translated the whole IFS article on Yuzu into Japanese. Since the magazine is still on sale, I'm just gonna share some interesting tidbits from there:
1. Javi and Yuzu constantly spurs each other on as they continue to grow while strengthening their friendship and that creates a very good training atmosphere. Both of them are gentlemanly and polite. Orser thinks that even though they have polar opposite personalities, describing Javi as more of a free spirit while Yuzuru a bit sheltered, they get on extremely well with each other. Javi is like an elder brother figure to Yuzu who cares for his well-being. When Javi falls on his jumps, Yuzu helps him up. When Yuzu manages to land his quad salchow, Javi gives him an applause. During program run-throughs, they encourage each other. It is perhaps comforting to them to train with somebody who's in the same boat, who experiences similar stress and pressure.
2. Recently, Yuzu has started studying sports science to prepare for Sochi Olympics. He wants to learn how to control his nerves and deal with the pressures from the media, spectators and judges alike.
3. He says that 2014 Sochi Olympics will not be the end of his competitive career. He'd like to continue competing post-Sochi and thinks he might retire post-2018. However, nothing is definite.
4. At first, he was worried re 4S being incorporated into his free program as he thought that it would be difficult to land the jumps in competitions.
5. He says that he can execute 3A three times in a row and mentions that he has done a 4S-3A sequence in an ice show before. However, the writer (Tatjana Flade) says that we shouldn't get our hopes up and expect him to perform them in real competitions, at least not this season, as Yuzu says that it'd be difficult to incorporate them into competitive programs.
Yuzu sent a bouquet to the cast of Notre Dame de Paris. This kid is too much. Also, Tatianna calling Yuzu a genius... Party on!


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Guided by new observations and exciting ideas, and made possible by important discoveries and inventions, the Renaissance scientific movement led Western Europe away from medieval attitudes to the beginnings of the views held by the modern world. Spanning approximately two hundred years, beginning midway into the fifteenth century, the movement saw the university-dominated theological stance begin to yield to the secularization of knowledge.
Particularly important to the spread of knowledgewas the invention of the printing press, which allowed for the distribution of standard texts at affordable cost. Coinciding with the means to disseminate ideas was a strong demand for new and more accurate translations and editions of classical texts. Greeks writings that were previously unknown or underutilized were translated into Latin, imparting knowledge and inspiration to the scientists of the Renaissance. Writing in reaction against Aristotelian science made for an atmosphere rich in ideas. In addition, many mystical and occultist writings circulated and these too found a place in the science of the time. Expanded literacy and increased use of vernacular languages gradually ended the exclusivity of knowledge to institutions. In order to apply new discoveries in practical ways, more people became tradesmen and engineers.
Advancements in technology—including the invention of scientific instruments like the microscope, telescope, and the thermometer—contributed to changing the prevailing attitudes toward scientific experimentation. Whereas rationalism, or rationalistic philosophy—whose epistemological and ontological foundations rested solely on a priori, or analytical reasoning—was the dominant mode of scientific thought, empirical philosophy—whose experimental basis turned to careful observations, or a posteriori reasoning—made new inroads. Although both modes of thinking were practiced in varying degrees, the trend was to look outward, not inward, for answers. This spirit of daring is exemplified by Copernicus' radical theory that the earth revolves around the sun and not the sun around the earth; his heliocentric theory removed the earth, and man, from the center of the universe.
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SOURCE: "Tradition and Reform," in Man and Nature in the Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, 1978, pp. 1–15.
[In the excerpt below, Debus provides an overview of the scientific revolution of the Renaissance, emphasizing the new interest in classical texts, the broader use of vernacular languages, and the expanded roles of observation, mathematics, technology, and mysticism.]
Few events in world history have been more momentous than the Scientific Revolution. The period between the mid-fifteenth and the end of the eighteenth centuries witnessed the growing cultural and political influence of Western Europe over all other parts of the globe. The new science and technology of the West was a crucial factor in this development, a fact recognized by most scholars at the time. Thus, Francis Bacon (1561–1626) observed in the Novum organum (1620) that
"it is well to observe the force and virtue and consequences of discoveries; and these are to be seen nowhere more conspicuously than in those three which were unknown to the ancients …; namely, printing, gunpowder, and the magnet. For these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world; the first in literature, the second in warfare, the third in navigation; whence have followed innumerable changes; insomuch that no empire, no sect, no star seems to have exerted greater power and influence in human affairs than these mechanical discoveries." [The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Eillis, and Douglas Dennon Heath (Longmans, 1870)]
For Bacon these discoveries were Western in origin and relatively recent in date. He was neither the first nor the last to make such a statement, but there were few whose works were read more avidly by those who hoped to erect a new science in the seventeenth century.
But if the importance of the Scientific Revolution is readily admitted by all, the more we study its origins, the more unsure we become of its causes. In this volume we shall be concerned primarily with the two centuries from 1450 to 1650, the first date coinciding roughly with the beginning of the new humanistic interest in the classical scientific and medical texts and the second with the years just prior to the general acceptance of the mechanistic science of Descartes (1596–1650), Galileo (1564–1642), Borelli (1608–1679), Boyle (1627–1691), and Newton (1642–1727).
These two centuries present an almost bewildering maze of interests, and only rarely will an individual be found whose scientific methodology would prove to be fully acceptable to a modern scientist. Some of the scholars, whose work contributed to our modern scientific age, found magic, alchemy, and astrology no less stimulating than the new interest in mathematical abstraction, observation, and experiment. Today we find it easy—and necessary—to separate "science" from occult interests, but many then could not. And we cannot relegate this interest in a mystical world view to a few lesser figures forgotten today except by antiquarians. The writings of Isaac Newton and Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) reveal a genuine interest in transmutation and a search for universal harmonies no less than the work of Paracelsus (1493–1541), Robert Fludd (1574–1637), or John Dee (1527–1608). For the most part it has been traditional among historians of science to view their subject by hindsight, that is, to ignore those aspects of an earlier natural philosophy that no longer have a place in our scientific world. However, if we do this we cannot hope to reach any contextual understanding of the period. It will thus be our aim to treat this period in its own terms rather than ours. As we proceed we shall find that controversies over natural magic and the truth of the macrocosm-microcosm analogy were then as important as the better-remembered debates over the acceptance of the heliocentric system or the circulation of the blood.
Renaissance Science and Education
The very words "Renaissance" and "humanism" have been employed with so many connotations that there is little hope of satisfying any two scholars with a single definition. There is no need to try to do so here. To be sure, the Renaissance did involve a kind of "rebirth" of knowledge—no less than it did a rebirth of art and literature. And it was surely the period of the development of a new science. But having granted this, it is necessary to be careful to avoid simplification. The new love of nature expressed by Petrarch (d. c. 1374) and other fourteenth-century humanists had more than one effect. We readily accept that it was instrumental in the rise of a new observational study of natural phenomena, but we also find that Petrarch and later humanists deeply distrusted the traditional scholastic emphasis on philosophy and the sciences. The rhetoric and history they preferred was a conscious reply to the more technical "Aristotelian" studies that had long been the mainstay of the medieval university. The humanists sought the moral improvement of man rather than the logic and scholastic disputations characteristic of traditional higher learning.
These shifting values were to result in a new interest in educational problems. Fourteenth- and fifteenth-century reform programs were to be directed toward elementary education rather than the universities. The humanist educator Vittorino da Feltre (1378–1446) established a new school where students were urged to excel at sports and to learn military exercises. In classrooms they studied rhetoric, music, geography, and history—and, taking their examples from the ancients, they were taught to value both moral principles and political action above the basic principles of the trivium (grammar, rhetoric, and logic) or the study of traditional philosophical and scientific subjects.
Many of the most renowned humanist scholars were to be affected by this movement in educational reform. The result may be clearly seen in the work of Erasmus (1466–1536). He thought it enough for a student to learn of nature through his normal course of study in the reading of the ancient literary authors. Mathematics was not to him of much importance for an educated man. And Juan Luis Vives (1492–1540), surely the best known of all Renaissance educators, agreed fully when he argued against the study of mathematics that it tended to "withdraw the mind from practical concerns of life" and rendered it "less fit to fuse concrete and mundane realities."
But can we then say that the universities remained the centers of scientific training? For the most part they did, but there was an ever-increasing number of scholars both in medicine and the sciences who rejected the overwhelming conservatism of many—and perhaps most—of the institutions of higher learning. Peter Ramus (1515–1572) recalled his own academic training with despair:
"After having devoted three years and six months to scholastic philosophy, according to the rules of our university: after having read, discussed, and meditated on the various treatises of the Organon (for of all the books of Aristotle those especially which treated of dialectic were read and re-read during the course of three years); even after, I say, having put in all that time, reckoning up the years completely occupied by the study of the scholastic arts, I sought to learn to what end I could, as a consequence, apply the knowledge I had acquired with so much toil and fatigue. I soon perceived that all this dialectic had not rendered me more learned in history and the knowledge of antiquity, nor more skillful in eloquence, nor a better poet, not wiser in anything. Ah, what a stupefaction, what a grief! How did I deplore the misfortune of my destiny, the barrenness of a mind that after so much labor could not gather or even perceive the fruits of that wisdom which was alleged to be found so abundantly in the dialectic of Aristotle!" [Peter Ramus and the Educational Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Frank Pierrepont Graves, 1912]
Ramus was not alone in his frustration—and his complaints were not without grounds. Paris, for example, was acknowledged as a stronghold of Galenic medicine in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries whereas in England both the Elizabethan statutes for Cambridge (1570) and also the Laudian code for Oxford (1636) maintained the official authority of the ancients. Nor were the early professional societies necessarily better. The London College of Physicians looked on innovation with distrust. Thus, when in 1559 Dr. John Geynes dared to suggest that Galen (129/130–199/200 A.D.) might not be infallible, the reaction was immediate and severe. The good doctor was forced to sign a recantation before being received again into the company of his colleagues.
The conservatism seen in many major universities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries may be partially balanced by a critical tradition that had been applied to the ancient scientific texts at Oxford and Paris in the fourteenth century. This work, associated with scholasticism, was to prove particularly beneficial to the study of the physics of motion. As a scholarly tradition it was still in evidence at Padua and other northern Italian universities in the sixteenth century. For many, however, scientific criticism was a curious kind of humanistic game in which the scholar was to be commended for having eliminated the vulgar annotations and emendations of medieval origin that marred the texts of antiquity. His goal was textual purity rather than scientific truth.
In short, the educational climate in the early Renaissance was of questionable value for the development of the sciences. University training in this period may be characterized for the most part as conservative. As for the reform of primary education accomplished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, this was openly antiscientific.
Humanism and Classical Literature
Dedication to the ancients is a familiar characteristic of Renaissance humanism. The search for new classical texts was intense in the fifteenth century, and each new discovery was hailed as a major achievement. No account is better known than that of Jacopo Angelo (fl. c. 1406). His ship sank as he was returning from a voyage to Constantinople made in search of manuscripts, but he managed to save his greatest discovery, a copy of the Geography of Ptolemy hitherto unknown in the West. Not long after this, in 1417, Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459) discovered what was later to be recognized as the only copy of Lucretius's (c. 99–55 B.C.) De rerum natura to have survived from antiquity. This was to become a major stimulus for the revived interest in atomism two centuries later. And, just nine years after the recovery of Lucretius, Guarino da Verona (1370–1460) found a manuscript of the encyclopedic treatise on medicine by the second-century author, Celsus. This work, De medicina, was to exert a great influence, an influence due perhaps less to its medical content than to its language and style. This was the only major medical work to have survived from the best period of Latin prose and it was to be mined by medical humanists who sought proper Latin terminology and phrasing.
The search for new texts—and new translations—resulted in a new awareness of the importance of Greek. To be sure, Roger Bacon (c. 1214–1294) had already underscored this need in the thirteenth century, but the situation had not materially improved a century later. At that time Petrarch had lamented his own inadequate knowledge of this language. In fact he was not alone. Few Western scholars were able to use Greek until the teacher Manuel Chrysolorus (d. 1415) arrived in Italy with the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Paleologus in 1396. But helpful though Chrysolorus was, much greater enthusiasm was stirred by another Byzantine, Gemistos Plethon, on his arrival at the Council of Florence in 1439. The Greek revival was to affect all scholarly fields in the course of the fifteenth century. In medicine the humanist Thomas Linacre (c. 1460–1524) prepared Latin translations of Proclus (410–485) and of individual works of Galen. Significant though this was, his plans—only partially fulfilled—were actually far more grandiose. He projected a Latin translation of the complete works of Galen—and, with a group of scholars, a Latin translation of the complete works of Aristotle as well. Hardly less industrious was Johannes Guinter of Andernach (1505–1574), whose translations from Galen place him in the front rank of medical humanists. As professor of medicine at Paris, Guinter became one of the most prominent teachers of the young Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564).
This quest for truth in the search for accurate manuscripts was not confined solely to the study of the ancient physicians. Georg von Peuerbach (1423–1461) recognized the need for an accurate manuscript of Ptolemy's Almagest while writing his textbook, the Theoricae novae planetarum. But Peuerbach died while he was in the process of planning a journey to Italy to accomplish this end. His pupil, Johann Müller...
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Bertrand Russell (essay date 1945)
SOURCE: "General Characteristics" and "The Rise of Science," in A History of Western Philosophy, and Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Simon and Schuster, 1945, pp. 491–95, 525–40.
[In the following excerpt, Russell puts in perspective both the achievements of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton, and the advances made in astronomy, dynamics, scientific instruments, and mathematics.]
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the...
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Bertrand Russell (lecture date 1914)
SOURCE: A lecture delivered at The Museum on November 18, 1914, in Scientific Method in Philosophy: The Herbert Spencer Lecture, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1914, pp. 3–30.
[In the following lecture, Russell summarizes the course of science since Copernicus and asserts that philosophy can progress only by studying, adapting, and applying the methods of science.]
When we try to ascertain the motives which have led men to the investigation of philosophical questions, we find that, broadly speaking, they can be divided into two groups, often antagonistic, and leading to very divergent systems. These two...
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Edwin Arthur Burtt (essay date 1924)
SOURCE: An introduction to The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, revised edition, Doubleday Anchor Books, 1954, pp. 15–35.
[In the following excerpt, Burtt traces the development of ideas and changes in terminology concerning man's relation to the world.]
A. Historical Problem Suggested by the Nature of Modern Thought
How curious, after all, is the way in which we moderns think about our world! And it is all so novel, too. The cosmology underlying our mental processes is but three centuries old—a mere infant in the history of thought—and yet we cling to it...
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Further Reading
Boas, Marie. "The Organisation and Reorganisation of Science." In her The Scientific Renaissance: 1450–1630, pp. 238–64. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962.
Discusses the evolution of modern scientific thought from Aristotelian and university-dominated to independent and empirical.
Foster, M. B. "The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science." Mind XLIII, No. 172 (October 1934): 446–468.
Examines the indebtedness of scientific thought to Christian principles.
Hall, Rupert. "The Scholar and the Craftsman in the Scientific...
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