The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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... expression of the mood of black melancholy grounded on a reasoned complaint of life and gaining force by restraint : Yet hope not life from grief or danger free , Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee . [ Man ] Hides from himself ...
... expression of the mood of black melancholy grounded on a reasoned complaint of life and gaining force by restraint : Yet hope not life from grief or danger free , Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee . [ Man ] Hides from himself ...
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... expression during the last fifty years of the eighteenth century , and built up another vast literature , largely imi- tative in nature , but leading directly to several excellent poems in the next period , even if we count Keats's ...
... expression during the last fifty years of the eighteenth century , and built up another vast literature , largely imi- tative in nature , but leading directly to several excellent poems in the next period , even if we count Keats's ...
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... expression in joyous satire by no means invalidates the sincerity of the more conventionally solemn philosophy of his early youth . This youthful philosophy found full and elaborate expression in the poem in question , which is ...
... expression in joyous satire by no means invalidates the sincerity of the more conventionally solemn philosophy of his early youth . This youthful philosophy found full and elaborate expression in the poem in question , which is ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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