The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats, Volume 65Examines the mood and themes of melancholy in literature and poetry from Gray to Keats. |
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... Shelley's3 has more of Collins than of Gray in the descriptive details , and more of Shelley than of Collins , but it may owe its name to Gray . This poem of Shelley's ends on a note combining Gray's pensiveness with romantic ...
... Shelley's3 has more of Collins than of Gray in the descriptive details , and more of Shelley than of Collins , but it may owe its name to Gray . This poem of Shelley's ends on a note combining Gray's pensiveness with romantic ...
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... Shelley's own self , here magnified to Titanic proportions . 111 This Shelleyan philosophy of love and hope and final deliverance , which grew more and more mystical as the poet's maturing mind and imagination drew away from William ...
... Shelley's own self , here magnified to Titanic proportions . 111 This Shelleyan philosophy of love and hope and final deliverance , which grew more and more mystical as the poet's maturing mind and imagination drew away from William ...
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... Shelley circle is Horace Smith's only considerable essay at serious verse , Amaryn- thus , the Nympholept ( London , 1821 ) . 100. There are two pathetic fragments addressed to Mary Shelley at the time when they were drawing apart in ...
... Shelley circle is Horace Smith's only considerable essay at serious verse , Amaryn- thus , the Nympholept ( London , 1821 ) . 100. There are two pathetic fragments addressed to Mary Shelley at the time when they were drawing apart in ...
Contents
COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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