The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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... interesting than analyzing the background of the later . The inevitable starting point of this double pursuit is the twelve - year period 1740-1752 , which saw the publication of all the best mid - century melancholy verse except the ...
... interesting than analyzing the background of the later . The inevitable starting point of this double pursuit is the twelve - year period 1740-1752 , which saw the publication of all the best mid - century melancholy verse except the ...
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... interesting group of melancholy love - poems concern women whose suffering arises not from the ab- sence or death of their true lovers but from the loneliness and shame of desertion . The seduced and forsaken maiden is a common theme of ...
... interesting group of melancholy love - poems concern women whose suffering arises not from the ab- sence or death of their true lovers but from the loneliness and shame of desertion . The seduced and forsaken maiden is a common theme of ...
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... Interesting evidence of the influence of such an ideal in the Shelley circle is Horace Smith's only considerable essay at serious verse , Amaryn- thus , the Nympholept ( London , 1821 ) . 100. There are two pathetic fragments addressed ...
... Interesting evidence of the influence of such an ideal in the Shelley circle is Horace Smith's only considerable essay at serious verse , Amaryn- thus , the Nympholept ( London , 1821 ) . 100. There are two pathetic fragments addressed ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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