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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 poet always talks about him- self ; the Victorian elegiac mode can operate equally well in the dramatic monologue - as in Tennyson's Enone and Ulysses or in pseudo - epic narrative poetry , as in Morte d'Arthur . But there is ...
... Victorian poet always talks about him- self ; the Victorian elegiac mode can operate equally well in the dramatic monologue - as in Tennyson's Enone and Ulysses or in pseudo - epic narrative poetry , as in Morte d'Arthur . But there is ...
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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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