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Brain Advance Access originally published online on April 23, 2007
Brain 2007 130(8):1981-1983; doi:10.1093/brain/awm076
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The poetry of Sir Charles Sherrington

John Fuller

Magdalen College, Oxford

Correspondence to: John Fuller, Magdalen College, Oxford E-mail: john.fuller@magd.ox.ac.uk

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The title-poem in Sherrington's The Assaying of Brabantius (1925) is a substantial piece taking up about three-sevenths of the volume. A third of the remaining poems ascertainably belong to the period of the First World War, but this visionary allegory with a quasi-mediaeval setting offers itself as a relatively early work. Its theme of the sinner redeemed by the innocent love for a boy (yet compelled to give him up) belongs more obviously to the Victorian or Edwardian poetic landscape.

Brabantius is a hedonist, who has ignored all appeals from his family. His selfish nature is represented by a ‘varlet janitor’ who keeps the real world at bay, and the paternal love which restores him to human feeling by a poor orphan whom he sees praying to the Virgin in the snow, and whom he adopts and educates. This process of repudiating the baser instincts and acquiring nobility through altruism . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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