The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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... choly " makes inappropriate any extended discussion of that poem in the present connection . III But the tradition of contemplative melancholy by no means depended on this particular series of odes for its perpetuation . Among the ...
... choly " makes inappropriate any extended discussion of that poem in the present connection . III But the tradition of contemplative melancholy by no means depended on this particular series of odes for its perpetuation . Among the ...
Page 63
... choly may deepen into despair , describes at length the progress from one extreme to the other , beginning with the familiar twilight wanderings by the " dreary monu- mental pile , " following through horrible hallucinations on the ...
... choly may deepen into despair , describes at length the progress from one extreme to the other , beginning with the familiar twilight wanderings by the " dreary monu- mental pile , " following through horrible hallucinations on the ...
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... choly arising out of man's attitude toward time and death and God and human affection , has entered as background or undertone something of man's attitude toward the world of external nature . This would be almost inevitable in any but ...
... choly arising out of man's attitude toward time and death and God and human affection , has entered as background or undertone something of man's attitude toward the world of external nature . This would be almost inevitable in any but ...
Contents
COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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