Encyclopedia entry: Complaint, The, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality

Encyclopedia entry: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and ...
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature;      372 words ...Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, The Complaint or, a didactic and reflective poem of ... rambling meditation on life's vicissitudes, death, and immortality, and includes lines which have become proverbial, such ...

Article: Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece on Death" and Edward Young's ...
ANQ;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... 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 Parnell's poem, above all, illustrate the extent ...

Article: The A-Z of William Blake Y IS FOR YOUNG'S `NIGHT ...
The Independent - London;  December 4, 2000 ;     448 words ... ... immensely popular poem "Night Thoughts", by Edward Young ... of all poets, and "Night Thoughts" - largely a collection ... about mortality and immortality - was a hit of international ... opinion of Blake's "Night Thoughts" has varied, from ...

Article: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth ...
Hollins Critic;  April 1, 1984 ;     700+ words ...Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth ... just beginning." I have read fate Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth ... forward to more. At the end of Late Night Thoughts ... I feel as though, toward the ...

Article: Night thoughts. (poem)
Chicago Review;  September 22, 1997 ;     696 words ... ... function is simply to entice tourists. - Paul Fussell, Abroad Night thoughts are best, the ones that visit us where we lie smoking between ... drawn cab out of the past goes past toward Leeson St. Night thoughts are best and worst. My attic window under the shining slates ...

Article: Wu Yu. Night Thoughts. . . . as like a raging fire. ...
Fanfare;  November 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...CHEN Wu Yu. Night Thoughts. . . . as like a raging fire. . . . TANAKA Frozen Horizon ... impersonation of a traditional Chinese percussion ensemble. Even Night Thoughts, which is the most pensive work of the three, is underpinned ...

Article: Night thoughts.
Test & Measurement World;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... from the bed and awakened me. After silencing the alarms and soothing the cat's jangled nerves, I lay awake thinking night thoughts and listening to the storm's winds howling through the pines and the sleet ticking on the windows. Were we ready for ...