The song 'O, were I on Parnassus Hill' similarly claims the inspiration of a
Muse while setting classical allusions against 'hamely' realities: the poet wishes that he were on Parnassus or could drink from Helicon to give him 'poetic skill' to sing his love for Jean, "But [the fiver] Nith maun be my
Muses well, / My
Muse maun be thy bonie sell [...] Then come, sweet
Muse, inspire my lay!'.
At this point, and as a critical gloss on this passage, let me confess that it was mostly on the basis of the radically uncompromising, Edenic rejection of ancestral
muses from both Africa and Europe as New World writers, in Walcott's formulation, set out to create the world afresh, it was on this basis that I chose the title for my talk in this paper: Forget the
Muse and think only of the subject.
Coming back to Anushka, Husain hasn't announced any plan yet of launching a film with the actress as he generally does, whenever he finds a new
muse. " Right now, there has been no mention of his making a film with her," said the actress's spokesperson.
Since then I've always been on a quest for that paradise, and so I find bits of it in Portion and Les
Muses. Even L'Ombre de l'epervier takes place on the water.
Documented in the sketches are celebrities like Coco Chanel and Nijinsky, as well as Cocteau's lover and
muse Jean Marais, the cross-dressing trapeze sensation Barbette, and Marcel Khill, the young Algerian who proposed to Cocteau that he travel around the world in eighty days in imitation of the Jules Verne tale.
Religious mystics speak of ecstasy and satori; poets, painters, musicians, dancers, and historians invoke their
Muses; while scientists and mathematicians, parsimonious and prosaic, claim only hunches and intuitions.
Belle and Dickson succeeded so admirably at capturing Farrell's story--and it's one of the great ones in ballet--that Elusive
Muse caused a sensation at last fall's New York Film Festival.
It is thus an indisputable fact that the migration of the iconography of the
Muses to Mantua was not accomplished single-handedly by Francesco II's wife Isabella d'Este.
The
Muses are often spoken of as unmarried, and they are repeatedly referred to as the mothers of more or less famous sons, such as Orpheus and Eumolpus.
The
Muses were not worshiped as deities but were frequently invoked, particularly by poets who called on them for inspiration.