The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 41
Page 95
... usually elegiac than to say that elegies or poems in what we have called the elegiac mood are usually written in that stanza . 5 II No poem , of course , may be considered a definite imi- tation of Gray's " Elegy " which is not in the ...
... usually elegiac than to say that elegies or poems in what we have called the elegiac mood are usually written in that stanza . 5 II No poem , of course , may be considered a definite imi- tation of Gray's " Elegy " which is not in the ...
Page 100
... usually be detected by the more strongly religious cast . of the meditations . The closely associated group of medi- tations by a single tomb admits more readily the con- tributary influence of the funeral - elegy literature as well as ...
... usually be detected by the more strongly religious cast . of the meditations . The closely associated group of medi- tations by a single tomb admits more readily the con- tributary influence of the funeral - elegy literature as well as ...
Page 220
... usually pines away to an early grave.1 142 Much more popular is the plot of lovers separated by cruel fate or rather , as usually happens , by cruel par- ents . Sometimes these tales come out happily at long last ; sometimes the lovers ...
... usually pines away to an early grave.1 142 Much more popular is the plot of lovers separated by cruel fate or rather , as usually happens , by cruel par- ents . Sometimes these tales come out happily at long last ; sometimes the lovers ...
Contents
COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abbey ancholy Anna Anna Seward autumn ballad Blair blank verse Byron century Chapter Chiswick British Poets choly Churchyard Contemplation couplet Cruscan dark death Della Cruscan descriptive despair Dodsley Dodsley's elegiac elegiac stanza Elegy English European Magazine Gentleman's Magazine ghosts gloomy Gothic grave Gray Gray's Elegy haunts heart Henry Kirke White hero heroic couplet horror human ibid imitations influence John John Clare Keats Kirke White Lady literary London love elegies lover lyric Mary Robinson meditations melan midnight Milton Monody mood mournful musing nature Night Thoughts o'er Ode to Melancholy Ossian parody passage pastoral Penseroso pensive philosophical phrase Pleasures poem poet's Poetical Calendar Poetical Magazine poetry retirement Robert Merry romantic ruins Scots Magazine sensibility sentimental Shelley Shenstone Solitude song sonnet sorrow soul spirit story sweet tale tears theme things Thomas Thomas Warton tion tomb tradition vols wandering Warton William write wrote Young youth