The Gloomy Egoist: Moods and Themes of Melancholy from Gray to Keats, Volume 65Examines the mood and themes of melancholy in literature and poetry from Gray to Keats. |
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... ruin , usually the ruin of an abbey . Professor Northup has six such meditations among the ruins , 37 all but one of which are by ruined abbeys , besides one by a monastery not yet wrecked by time.38 There is no ruin in Gray's poem ...
... ruin , usually the ruin of an abbey . Professor Northup has six such meditations among the ruins , 37 all but one of which are by ruined abbeys , besides one by a monastery not yet wrecked by time.38 There is no ruin in Gray's poem ...
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... ruins is John Cunningham's " Elegy on a Pile of Ruins " ( 1761 ) . The whole tradi- tion is here . The poet , from the conventional hill , sees the ruins of an abbey and of a castle , close by a tumbling rivulet , and overgrown with ...
... ruins is John Cunningham's " Elegy on a Pile of Ruins " ( 1761 ) . The whole tradi- tion is here . The poet , from the conventional hill , sees the ruins of an abbey and of a castle , close by a tumbling rivulet , and overgrown with ...
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... Ruins of a Noble- man's Seat in Cornwall ( 1760 ) , Poetical Calendar , VIII , 88 ff ; John Cunningham : " Elegy on a Pile of Ruins " ( 1761 ) , Chalmers , XIV , 443 ff ; Edward Jerningham : " An Elegy written among the Ruins of an ...
... Ruins of a Noble- man's Seat in Cornwall ( 1760 ) , Poetical Calendar , VIII , 88 ff ; John Cunningham : " Elegy on a Pile of Ruins " ( 1761 ) , Chalmers , XIV , 443 ff ; Edward Jerningham : " An Elegy written among the Ruins of an ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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