The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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... lyrics in any meter , especially melan- choly ones , are always in danger of a too luscious senti- mentality . Moore's ... lyric genius of the writer . It need scarcely be added that the line between legitimate sentiment or passion , and ...
... lyrics in any meter , especially melan- choly ones , are always in danger of a too luscious senti- mentality . Moore's ... lyric genius of the writer . It need scarcely be added that the line between legitimate sentiment or passion , and ...
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... lyrics with a masculine point of view which is obviously dramatic , ' they fell into the habit of writ- ing lyric monologues for love - lorn women . The writers of Scots peasant verse - Burns , 121 Hogg , Tannahill , Mother- 120 well ...
... lyrics with a masculine point of view which is obviously dramatic , ' they fell into the habit of writ- ing lyric monologues for love - lorn women . The writers of Scots peasant verse - Burns , 121 Hogg , Tannahill , Mother- 120 well ...
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... lyric in the spirit of the seventeenth century , 137 he lacked the strength and sinew of the Elizabethans , and his lyric ecstasy or sorrow is often monotonously exclamatory and shrilly sweet as the notes of a piccolo . He was moon ...
... lyric in the spirit of the seventeenth century , 137 he lacked the strength and sinew of the Elizabethans , and his lyric ecstasy or sorrow is often monotonously exclamatory and shrilly sweet as the notes of a piccolo . He was moon ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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