The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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... element in this poem , once so popular but now fallen into undeserved neglect , is the wealth of macabre detail , the almost sadistic dwell- ing on sickness and corruption . This sort of treatment of the death theme had , during the ...
... element in this poem , once so popular but now fallen into undeserved neglect , is the wealth of macabre detail , the almost sadistic dwell- ing on sickness and corruption . This sort of treatment of the death theme had , during the ...
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... element , and indeed the element of melancholy , is much less nearly ubiquitous . Many of these poems , to be sure , notably certain of those by Bowles , are suffused with the twilght pensiveness of the nature odes and elegies . Oftener ...
... element , and indeed the element of melancholy , is much less nearly ubiquitous . Many of these poems , to be sure , notably certain of those by Bowles , are suffused with the twilght pensiveness of the nature odes and elegies . Oftener ...
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... elements of romantic Weltschmerz as it were disparately in his minor verse : the outward- looking in the humanitarian and ... element . As a melan- choly poet , Byron is much more complex , as well as much more important , than Coleridge ...
... elements of romantic Weltschmerz as it were disparately in his minor verse : the outward- looking in the humanitarian and ... element . As a melan- choly poet , Byron is much more complex , as well as much more important , than Coleridge ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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