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4. The Lure of Solitude: Melancholy and Eremitism as Literary Dispositions
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Andrew Mattison
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: Writing in Solitude 1
- 1. Lyric Futures: Hidden Ambitions in the Sidney-Pembroke Circle 20
- 2. Nameless Orphans: Ambitious Poetry in an Age of Modesty 45
- 3. The Peril of Understanding: Forms of Obscurity 69
- 4. The Lure of Solitude: Melancholy and Eremitism as Literary Dispositions 100
- 5. The Naked Sense of Retirement: Cowley, Marvell, Traherne 132
- 6. Literary History in Isolation: Bacon, Hofmannsthal, and Historical Memory 169
- Conclusion: Reading in Solitude 196
- Notes 203
- Bibliography 235
- Index 253
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: Writing in Solitude 1
- 1. Lyric Futures: Hidden Ambitions in the Sidney-Pembroke Circle 20
- 2. Nameless Orphans: Ambitious Poetry in an Age of Modesty 45
- 3. The Peril of Understanding: Forms of Obscurity 69
- 4. The Lure of Solitude: Melancholy and Eremitism as Literary Dispositions 100
- 5. The Naked Sense of Retirement: Cowley, Marvell, Traherne 132
- 6. Literary History in Isolation: Bacon, Hofmannsthal, and Historical Memory 169
- Conclusion: Reading in Solitude 196
- Notes 203
- Bibliography 235
- Index 253
