The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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... tion would be likely to expect the poets to treat of it . There is only a modest amount of love melancholy in the Collection , and much of what there is sounds to us conventional , even perfunctory . There are numerous love songs in the ...
... tion would be likely to expect the poets to treat of it . There is only a modest amount of love melancholy in the Collection , and much of what there is sounds to us conventional , even perfunctory . There are numerous love songs in the ...
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... tion are almost invariably bid hence , the former , how- ever , sometimes only at the instigation of Religion or Patience and after a brief invoking of indifference or the oblivion of suicide.80 Horror , on the other hand , is some ...
... tion are almost invariably bid hence , the former , how- ever , sometimes only at the instigation of Religion or Patience and after a brief invoking of indifference or the oblivion of suicide.80 Horror , on the other hand , is some ...
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... tion . VI Various other more or less elaborate didactic poems carry on the tradition of deliberate contemplative melan- choly . There is a group whose titles indicate direct imita- tion of " Il Penseroso , " among which two at least ...
... tion . VI Various other more or less elaborate didactic poems carry on the tradition of deliberate contemplative melan- choly . There is a group whose titles indicate direct imita- tion of " Il Penseroso , " among which two at least ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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