The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... written in 1808 and may have been inspired by the poet's hopeless passion for Mary Chaworth . To the same tragic episode in his career , though written later than the song , we owe The Dream ( 1816 ) , in which passion and imagination ...
... written in 1808 and may have been inspired by the poet's hopeless passion for Mary Chaworth . To the same tragic episode in his career , though written later than the song , we owe The Dream ( 1816 ) , in which passion and imagination ...
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... written among the Euganean Hills express the rapt mood of a mind ' wedded , ' as Wordsworth's habitually , as Shelley's rarely , was , with ' this goodly universe ' ; his soul , which so long Darkened this swift stream of song , grows ...
... written among the Euganean Hills express the rapt mood of a mind ' wedded , ' as Wordsworth's habitually , as Shelley's rarely , was , with ' this goodly universe ' ; his soul , which so long Darkened this swift stream of song , grows ...
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... written after an interval of some months , the sense that beauty , though not without some glorious com- pensation , perishes , which , in varying degrees , dominates these three odes , yields to a serene and joyous contemplation of ...
... written after an interval of some months , the sense that beauty , though not without some glorious com- pensation , perishes , which , in varying degrees , dominates these three odes , yields to a serene and joyous contemplation of ...
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