At Nightfall and Midnight: MUSINGS AFTER DARK. BY FRANCIS JACOX, AUTHOR OF "CUES FROM ALL QUARTERS,' "ASPECTS OF AUTHORSHIP," "In the TWILIGHT, in the EVENING, in the black and dark NIGHT.” Prov. vii. 9 "In the gloaming came the musings that take form with waning light; London: HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 27 & 31, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCLXXIII. 270. f. 381. Crepuscular effects in the Poets.-Abstracting power of Twilight. PAGE I-33 II. HOMEWARDS AT NIGHTFALL, AND HOME FOR THE NIGHT: The labourer's welcome home at eventide.-The Cottar's Satur- Philosophy and poetry of shadows.-Citations from Dante, Dryden, Swift, George Eliot, Hawthorne, etc.-Shadows in Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, etc.-Grotesque shadows.- Shadows in song, fable, and romance.-' and his congeners.-Spectre shadows-the shadow of death 43-65 IV. A MOONLIGHT RIDE WITH WORDSWORTH: Wordsworth's Lucy.—-‘If Lucy should be dead !'—Anticipatory b |