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" When it most closely allies itself to Beauty; the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world... "
With Friend and Book: In the Study and the Fields - Page 54
by John Rogers Rees - 1892 - 84 pages
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Introduction to American Literature: Including Illustrative Selections, with ...

Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 pages
...of all the poetical tones." By his usual ratiocination I'oe reached the conclusion that " the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most...equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited lor .such topic are those of a bereaved lover." As to the metre, " the feet employed throughout (trochees)...
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The Mind and Art of Poe's Poetry

John Phelps Fruit - 1899 - 166 pages
...? ' Death — was the obvious reply. ' And when is this most melancholy of topics most poetical ? ' When it most closely allies itself to Beauty/ the...it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such a topic are those of a bereaved lover." Combining the idea of a lover sorrowing for his deceased mistress...
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 3

Edgar Allan Poe - 1900 - 538 pages
...universal understanding of mankind, is the most melancholy 1 " Death, was the obvious reply. "And when," I said, "is this most melancholy of topics most poetical...obvious — "When it most closely allies itself to Scanty: the death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world,...
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Essays of American Essayists: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches ...

1900 - 514 pages
...understanding of mankind, is the most melancholy?" Death, was .the -Quidous. reply. " And when," I said, " is this most melancholy of topics most poetical...explained at some length the answer here also is obvious — " wjhen it most closejy_allies itself to beautyj__the death, then, of a^BfiautiluJ wom.anJiiing.uestionably...
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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volumes 14-15

Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 708 pages
...understanding of mankind, is the most melancholy ? ' ' I)eath — was the obvious reply. "And when," I said, "is this most melancholy of topics most poetical...itself to Beauty: the death, then, of a beautiful woman u,\ unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world — , and equally is it beyond doubt that...
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Life of Edgar Allan Poe ..., Volume 1

James A. Harrison - 1903 - 602 pages
...understanding of mankind, is the most melancholy ? ' Death — was the obvious reply. ' And when, ' I said, ' is this most melancholy of topics most poetical...it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such a topic are those of a bereaved lover.' " I had now to combine the two ideas, of a lover lamenting...
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Literary criticism. I: Introduction to the ...

Edgar Allan Poe, George Edward Woodberry - 1903 - 392 pages
...obvious reply. " And when," I said, " is this most melancholy of topics most poetical? " From what 1 have already explained at some length, the answer...it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such a topic are those of a bereaved lover." I had now to combine the two ideas, of a lover lamenting his...
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe ...

Edgar Allan Poe - 1904 - 268 pages
...of mankind, is the most melancholy?" Dp.ith — was the obvious reply. "And when," I said, "is the most melancholy of topics most poetical?" From what...obvious — ' ' When it most closely allies itself to Reonty: the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world...
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A Note Upon Dryden's Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Cromwell ...

Edward Smith Parsons - 1904 - 754 pages
...death, which is most poetical when allied to beauty. "The death then of a beloved woman," he continues, "is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the...it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topics are those of a bereaved lover." The work from which this citation is taken is an essay on the...
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Victor Daley

Alfred George Stephens - 1905 - 54 pages
...the obvious reply. " And when," I said, " is this most melancholy of topics most poetical ? " . . . the answer here also is obvious — "When it most...it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such a topic are those of a bereaved lover."— EA POE, " The Philosophy of Composition." and Daley's becomes...
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