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Article: Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece on Death" and Edward Young's Night Thoughts.(Essays)(Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: In Nine Nights)(Critical essay)(Brief article)
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- September 22, 2007
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The medieval ars moriendi never really died as a genre, but rather went underground and then, Arethusa-like, resurfaced in such secular contexts as the soliloquy in Hamlet 3.1 56-88, Raleigh's "Passionate Man's Pilgrimage," and Marvell's "Garden." It showed a remarkable recrudescence, above all, in the eighteenth century when the "poetry of the night" invariably centered on the way "mentem mortalia tangunt." An accomplished version of ars moriendi, Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece on Death" (published in 1722), provided a model in parvo for Edward Young's more famous successor, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: In Nine Nights (1742-44). Two passages in ...
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