Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-219) and index.
Contents:
Melancholy and Victorian poetry -- Tennyson's hollow oes and aes -- Elizabeth Barrett and the emotion of the trapped -- "Filthy rags of speech" : Browning's melancholy optimism -- Edward Fitzgerald : melancholy, orientalism, aestheticism.
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