Night Thoughts

Night Thoughts PDF Author: Edward Young
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications
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Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death,&immortality. The Eighth Edition. [By Edward Young.]

The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death,&immortality. The Eighth Edition. [By Edward Young.] PDF Author: Edward Young
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Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The Complaint;

The Complaint; PDF Author: Edward Young
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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The Complaint, Or Night Thoughts

The Complaint, Or Night Thoughts PDF Author: Edward Young
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Languages : en
Pages : 188

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The complaint; or, Night thoughts, on life, death, and immortality. [Followed by] A paraphrase on part of the book of Job. With the life of the author [signed G.W.].

The complaint; or, Night thoughts, on life, death, and immortality. [Followed by] A paraphrase on part of the book of Job. With the life of the author [signed G.W.]. PDF Author: Edward Young
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Languages : en
Pages : 332

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The Complaint: Or Night-Thoughts, On Life, Death, And Immortality

The Complaint: Or Night-Thoughts, On Life, Death, And Immortality PDF Author: Edward Young
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Languages : en
Pages : 244

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The Complaint: Or Night-thoughts

The Complaint: Or Night-thoughts PDF Author: Edward Young
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts

The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts PDF Author: Edward Young
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Complaint, Or Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

The Complaint, Or Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality PDF Author: Edward Young
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Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Edward Young: Night Thoughts

Edward Young: Night Thoughts PDF Author: Edward Young
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052134185X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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During the century after its publication in 1742, 'Night Thoughts' was one of the most popular, widely read and influential poems in the English language. However, there have been no editions of the poem since the middle of the nineteenth century. This edition contains a critical introduction setting the poem in the context of the eighteenth-century sublime. There is a commentary which explains historical and linguistic obscurities, and a history of the poem's publication. The text is based on the first editions of the separate 'Nights', and the old spelling has been retained. The editions are collated here, and all substantive variants recorded. Dr Cornford's critical introduction discusses the conception of the poet's role; Young's attitude to the 'imagination' in the context of contemporary epistemology; eighteenth-century attitudes to death and immortality as expressed in sermons and devotional literature; and the critical reception of the poem in Britain and Europe. This discussion seeks to explain why a poem of Christian consolation, orthodox and ancient in its theology, became a seminal work in a secular cult of sepulchral melancholoy.