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... Victorian elegiac mode . Victorian poetry ran to elegy and Victorian poets tended to believe that what was most elegiac was most poetical ; their movement towards elegy , that is to say , was bound up with their deepest feelings about ...
... Victorian elegiac mode . Victorian poetry ran to elegy and Victorian poets tended to believe that what was most elegiac was most poetical ; their movement towards elegy , that is to say , was bound up with their deepest feelings about ...
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... Victorian elegiac mode and refused to see poetry as concerned essentially with isolation and intro- spection . Yet in spite of himself the note of elegy creeeps in . ( I am not here concerned with his ostensible elegies such as When ...
... Victorian elegiac mode and refused to see poetry as concerned essentially with isolation and intro- spection . Yet in spite of himself the note of elegy creeeps in . ( I am not here concerned with his ostensible elegies such as When ...
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... Victorian scepticism is that the former was regarded as a liberation , and produced ( notably in the case of David Hume ) cheerfulness , whereas the latter was always a source of worry . Many of the Victorian sceptics were reluctant and ...
... Victorian scepticism is that the former was regarded as a liberation , and produced ( notably in the case of David Hume ) cheerfulness , whereas the latter was always a source of worry . Many of the Victorian sceptics were reluctant and ...
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