...imagine Ferdinand's oozy death so vividly. Prospero boasts that he is able to control death itself: "Graves at my command / Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let them forth / By my so potent art" (5.1.48-50). But we must ask whether this claim constitutes an empty boast or perhaps a wistful fantasy....

...vault Set roaring war: to the dread-rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt: the strong-bas'd promontory Have...let them forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure; . . . I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than...

...shall be my grave"]? La idea de Calibán en Italia es casi impensable; lo que es apenas stout oak / With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory / Have...command / Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth / By my so potent Art. But this rough magic / I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd /...

...'mind' is sometimes capable of 'acting on the material world without the mediation of the senses'. 304 With his own bolt: the strong-bas'd promontory Have...sleepers, op'd, and let them forth By my so potent art. (v, i, 40) What Shakespeare's furthest flight of poetic imagination surveys as humanly conceivable,...

...vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have...my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent Art. (The Tempest, VL 41-50) Figures such as Blake's Bard or Shakespeare's...

...rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong bas'd promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd...my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent art. "But this rough magic," he says, "I here abjure" (Vi 41-51). The first...

...dread-rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar: graves at my command Have wak'cl their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure;...

...vault Set roaring war. To the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have...my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth, By my so potent art. ,...-. Prospero Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold...

...mutinous winds, And twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war . . . the strong-based promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar . . . (Those pines and cedars of the Carolina coast, that appear in Hakluyt, lodged in the poets' minds...

...schiantato La solida quercia di Giove Con la sua stessa folgore, Ho scosso il promontorio Have I macie shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar:...my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent Art. But this rough magie 50 I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd Some...