Professor Borges - A Course on English Literature

Alicia Jurado, was published in the first number of the magazine
La Biblioteca
(Jan–March, 1957), edited by Borges in his position as director of the National Library.
9. The last poem of
Lyrical Ballads
(1798) published in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”:
“For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
The still sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue.—And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.”
10. From
A Vision of the Last Judgement.
11. Sixth proverb from “Proverbs of Hell” in
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
12. Among Blake’s “prophetic books” are:
America, A Prophecy
(1793),
Europe, A Prophecy
(1794),
The Book of Urizen
(1794),
The Book of Ahania
(1795),
The Book of Los
(1795), and
The Song of Los
(1795).
13. The text is “But silken nets and traps of adamant will Oothoon spread, / And catch for thee girls of mild silver, or of furious gold.” (“Visions of the Daughters of Albion,” lines 197–98, 1793).
14. He is certainly referring to Samuel Foster Damon,
A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake
(Provincetown: Brown University Press, 1965), published the year before these classes were given.
    CLASS 16

1. Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas (1580–1645) was a Spanish nobleman, politician, and writer of the Baroque era.
2. Léon Bloy (1846–1917). Borges includes his
Le Salut par les Juifs
[
Salvation through the Jews
], 1892, in volume 54 of his
Biblioteca personal
.
3.
Arbeiten und nicht verzweifeln: Auszüge aus seinen Werken
, translated into German by Maria Kühn and A. Kretzschmar.
4. Carlyle contributed sixteen articles to
Edinburgh Encyclopaedia
from 1820 to 1825.
5.
Life of Schiller
was first published in
London Magazine
(1823–24).
6. Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763–1825), novelist and humorist born in Wunsiedel, Germany.
7. Published in 1824 and 1827, respectively.
8.
Sartor Resartus
was published in 1833–34.
9. Giuseppe Balsamo, alias Count Cagliostro (1743–95), an Italian adventurer.
10. José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia (1766–1840), Paraguayan dictator.
11. Published in 1845.
12. Published in 1837.
13. Borges is referring to
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
(1843).
14. Facundo Quiroga (1788–1835) was an Argentine
candillo
. Domingo Sarmiento (1811–1888), the seventh president of Argentina, activist, and writer. He wrote
Facundo, Civilization and Barbarism
in 1845.
15. Carlyle published her letters and papers in 1883 under the title
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
. In 1903,
New Letters and Memorials
appeared in London.
16. Published in 1858.
17.
The Early Kings of Norway
(1875). See also Class 1, note 3, and Class 4, note 4.
18. In German,
Weissnichtwo
literally means “know not where.”
19. Pedro Bonifacio Palacios, also known as Almafuerte (1854–1917), Argentine poet.
20. Miguel de Unamuno, see Class 10, note 14.
21. Published in 1841.
22. “Shooting Niagara: And After?” (1867).
23. John A. Carlyle (1801–79) was a medical doctor.
24. Pedro Bonifacio Palacios (1854–1917), better known as Almafuerte, was an Argentine poet.
25.
Sartor Resartus
, chapter VII: “‘The simplest costume,’ observes our Professor, ‘which I anywhere find alluded to in History, is that used as regimental, by Bolivar`s Cavalry, in the late Colombian wars. A square Blanket, twelve feet in diagonal, is provided (some were wont to cut off the corners, and make it circular): in the centre a slit is effected eighteen inches long; through this the mother-naked Trooper introduces his head and neck; and so rides shielded from all weather, and in battle from many strokes (for he rolls it about his left arm); and not only dressed, but harnessed and draperied.’”
    CLASS 17

1. Sir Richard Francis Burton (1827–90), English explorer, linguist, soldier, writer, and diplomat. He studied at Oxford, from which he was expelled for a minor offense. At twenty-one he joined the East India Company. He was posted in Sindh,