The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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... Young does not even meditate in a churchyard , much less revel in the Gothic details of the charnel house , others ... Young , Hervey , and Blair . To begin with , they influenced each other : Young's " Last Day " seems to have ...
... Young does not even meditate in a churchyard , much less revel in the Gothic details of the charnel house , others ... Young , Hervey , and Blair . To begin with , they influenced each other : Young's " Last Day " seems to have ...
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... Young's , is of this type : George Harley's long blank verse " Night " ( 1796 ) , which begins with a general welcome to Night in her " shadowy car , " but thereafter concerns itself almost wholly with an enumeration of the wrong ways ...
... Young's , is of this type : George Harley's long blank verse " Night " ( 1796 ) , which begins with a general welcome to Night in her " shadowy car , " but thereafter concerns itself almost wholly with an enumeration of the wrong ways ...
Page 352
... Young's chief biographer , W. Thomas , has an interesting theory that Philander is the poet Tickell , and Narcissa a carefully concealed natural daughter . See Le Poète Edw . Young : Étude sur sa Vie et ses Œuvres , Paris , 1901 , pp ...
... Young's chief biographer , W. Thomas , has an interesting theory that Philander is the poet Tickell , and Narcissa a carefully concealed natural daughter . See Le Poète Edw . Young : Étude sur sa Vie et ses Œuvres , Paris , 1901 , pp ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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