The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
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... tradition . The philosophical basis of this literature , in so far as it is aware of any philosophy beyond a mere following of fashionable tradition , is in a belief that it is the part of wisdom and of virtue to seek a solitude filled ...
... tradition . The philosophical basis of this literature , in so far as it is aware of any philosophy beyond a mere following of fashionable tradition , is in a belief that it is the part of wisdom and of virtue to seek a solitude filled ...
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... tradition , and at the same time pointed out and himself influenced the way in which that tradition was later to develop . Of the very minor poems of this group between " The Pleasures of Melancholy " and " The Pleasures of Memo- ry ...
... tradition , and at the same time pointed out and himself influenced the way in which that tradition was later to develop . Of the very minor poems of this group between " The Pleasures of Melancholy " and " The Pleasures of Memo- ry ...
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... tradition of neo - classic philosophical melancholy . 141 Thomas Campbell's " Pleasures of Hope " ( 1799 ) , 1 also ... tradition . But the most important of all these didactic poems for an understanding of how the classic - Miltonic ...
... tradition of neo - classic philosophical melancholy . 141 Thomas Campbell's " Pleasures of Hope " ( 1799 ) , 1 also ... tradition . But the most important of all these didactic poems for an understanding of how the classic - Miltonic ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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