Author: Edward Young
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality
Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
Author: Edward Young (the Poet.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The Complaint, Or, Night Thoughts
Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality ...
The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts
The Complaint
Night Thoughts on Life Death & Immortality; to Wich is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and The Last Day a Poem by Edward Young, L.L.D.
The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death,&immortality. The Eighth Edition. [By Edward Young.]
Edward Young: Night Thoughts
Author: Edward Young
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052134185X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052134185X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.