Just as questions of time and biography/self-identity complicated the identification of the poet/reader, so they complicate the characterization of this "crowd." The 1820s in Russia were a decade of greatly expanding readership and a dynamic, though
unfledged and polarized, culture of literary criticism, which served as intermediary between author and public.
And in the second paragraph above is the word "unflagged"--which the spellchecker likes better as "unclogged," "
unfledged" or "unplugged."
I placed Little Bird's body on the spreading bough of a pine tree, said a prayer for its tiny,
unfledged soul, and returned to the empty, silent apartment.
Stella, of course, had attracted a lot of attention during the years encompassed by the show; in 1970, he had a retrospective at MOMA, aged thirty-four--notably young in an era before
unfledged art school students could expect to be snatched up by dealers.
However, as the night emerges, it becomes endowed with the possibility of infinite unfolding and transformation, and we soon see the night not as a state of pure darkness, but as an entity of multiple facets and forms: As a bird
unfledged is the broad-winged night, whose winglets are callow Yet, but soon with their plumes will she cover her brood from afar, Cover the brood of her worlds that cumber the skies with their blossom Thick as the darkness of leaf-shadowed spring is encumbered with flowers.
McCarthy, "The Queen's '
unfledged minions': An Alternate Account of the Origins of Blackfriars and of the Boy Company Phenomenon" (93-117); Michael Shapiro, "The Westminister Scholars' Sapientia Solomonis as Royal Gift Offering" (118-22); Virginia Mason Vaughan, "Blacking-up at the Blackfriar Theatre" (123-31); and Ian Borden, "The Blackfriars Gladiators: Masters of Fence, Playing a Prize, and the Elizabethan and Stuart Theater" (132-48).
Then came the roasted squab (a young,
unfledged bird, usually a pigeon) with chocolate bonbon and beetroot cannelloni, attended by Liefmans Frambozen (4.5% ABV).
The epithet also carries the following meanings, probably all of which were wittily applied to self by Eliot: remaining unuttered, as in "speech without wings," or wingless flight, or
unfledged and callow, as of young birds.
As an
unfledged youngster, waving goodbye to home on the way back to school was bad enough, though not a patch on the moment at journey's end when Dad and I used to say goodbye and struggle bravely to pretend that it didn't matter.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar; Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd,
unfledged comrade.
The mature Manuel recognizes the naivete of his
unfledged precursor's lucubrations, happily sharing the flaws of "mon enterprise romanesque ancienne" with the reader; yet this Manuel is in his own way no less committed to the idea of life as art than the other one.
