The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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... close at Milton's heels , he goes to the tragedy . Then , wander- ing in the true manner of the descriptive poems , he tells us of a banished noble in Siberia , of a gazer on Athens , of the ruins of Persepolis . The poem closes with a ...
... close at Milton's heels , he goes to the tragedy . Then , wander- ing in the true manner of the descriptive poems , he tells us of a banished noble in Siberia , of a gazer on Athens , of the ruins of Persepolis . The poem closes with a ...
Page 143
... close of our period appeared the most pre- tentious treatment of all , Pollok's Course of Time , as well as related poems on Heaven , Hell , and Satan , by the same Robert Montgomery whom we have been discussing . The earlier group ...
... close of our period appeared the most pre- tentious treatment of all , Pollok's Course of Time , as well as related poems on Heaven , Hell , and Satan , by the same Robert Montgomery whom we have been discussing . The earlier group ...
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... close in the end to humility and heart - break , or to pine away in silence until he lay beside his mistress in the tomb over which the woods and waves moaned an eternal dirge . Felicia Hemans was after all too calmly poised and ...
... close in the end to humility and heart - break , or to pine away in silence until he lay beside his mistress in the tomb over which the woods and waves moaned an eternal dirge . Felicia Hemans was after all too calmly poised and ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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