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Article: The epigraph to Henley's In Hospital.
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- Victorian Newsletter
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 Ward Hellstrom. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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"On ne saurait dire a quel heure un homme, seul dans son lit et malade, devient personnel."
W. E. Henley's hospital sequence, published in 1888, has been recognized as "one of the starting points of the English poetry of the modern crisis" (De Sola Pinto 28). An early critical reading argued that the epigraph from Balzac reveals "a dialectic of denial and assent" at work in the poems (Buckley 45-46). And a celebrated life of the poet asserted that the epigraph reflects the "determinedly stoical" philosophy distilled from Henley's "suffering and endurance" (Counell 42). To this day, however, no one has identified either the source of the inscription or the ...
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