Word: bleeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forced to think about Percy Bysshe Shelley, most people visualize something with wild hair, wild eyes, a decollete shirt, poised to intone: "Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!" Responsible for this conception is Shelley's official biographer, Professor Edward Dowden, and a whole school of Victorian apologists. They have busily sold Shelley as an inspired listener to skylarks, with an unfortunate but irrelevant "interest in social revolution. Critic-Poet Francis Thompson advised would-be Shelleyans to "peep over the wild mass of revolutionary metaphysics" and discover...
...humans. > "If you fire your arrow at a deer and think you've hit him, sit down, fill your pipe. Smoke it all the way through. Then get up and look for your deer. If you hit him, that will give him time to lie down and bleed. Then he can't run away." > "You boys with your bows & arrows, you be careful. I don't want any of those broadheads [arrows] to hit my broad bottom." Despite these Woodycisms, last week's bowmen bagged nary a buck. One got pretty close, had his bow bent...