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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 820
EAN num: 9780521069670
ISBN number: 052106967X
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: July 31, 2008
Publishing house: Cambridge University Press
Sale Popularity Level: 711962
Studio: Cambridge University Press
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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 very 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 discusion 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.
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This is not an edition of Young's Night Thoughts. It is a collection of brief selections from it. It should be presented as such. Those who buy it thinking they are getting the whole of Young's not-very-long poem are being cheated.
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Supposedly a "seminal work in a secular cult of sepulchral melancholoy" this bokk was written by a supposed man of the cloth. But I dont belive it. I think Edward Young was PRETENDING to be a man of JESUS CHRIST while working to undermine HIS HOLY WORK. Otherwise, why would he have written a book to inspire GODDLESS Goths? William Blake, the well known SATANIST (the Marilyn Manson of his time) was a HUGE fan of his, and everyone knows that Blake was an INCESTOR who had a affair with his half-sister...
I would never read this book, and I dont reccomend that anyone else does either.
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