The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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... Milton has set his seal upon it as he has upon so much eighteenth - century verse . Professor R. D. Havens , in his monumental study of The Influence of Milton on English Poetry , 26 while he traces the tremendous vogue of Milton's ...
... Milton has set his seal upon it as he has upon so much eighteenth - century verse . Professor R. D. Havens , in his monumental study of The Influence of Milton on English Poetry , 26 while he traces the tremendous vogue of Milton's ...
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... Milton himself , although he calls his second mood pensive , nevertheless opens the poem by invoking " devinest Melancholy , " whom he hails first as a " Goddess sage and holy " and then as a " pensive Nun ! " and the poem ends These ...
... Milton himself , although he calls his second mood pensive , nevertheless opens the poem by invoking " devinest Melancholy , " whom he hails first as a " Goddess sage and holy " and then as a " pensive Nun ! " and the poem ends These ...
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... Milton than to either the Italians or the Elizabethans.115 Nevertheless it should be said that the growing interest in Italian literature did bring with it translation and imi- tation of Petrarch , and Milton never had undisturbed ...
... Milton than to either the Italians or the Elizabethans.115 Nevertheless it should be said that the growing interest in Italian literature did bring with it translation and imi- tation of Petrarch , and Milton never had undisturbed ...
Contents
COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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