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  2. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - Wikipedia

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    Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds: Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bow'r,

  3. Charles Warr - Wikipedia

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    Rev. Charles Warr (right) with the Duke of York (centre) and Sir Francis Grant, Lord Lyon King of Arms (left) and proceeding to St Giles' Cathedral in 1933. Charles Laing Warr [1] KCVO [2] FRSE (1892–1969) was a Church of Scotland minister [3] [4] and author [5] in the 20th century.

  4. Impression, Sunrise - Wikipedia

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    Jules Castagnary for Le Siècle wrote that the group of painters could be described by no other word beside the new term impressionists, since they rendered the "sensation evoked by the landscape" rather than the landscape. He claimed that "The very word has entered their language: not landscape, but impression, in the title given in the ...

  5. All That Is Solid Melts into Air - Wikipedia

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    Faust now has a vision to transform the entire landscape around him into a great series of projects and developments to harness nature and turn civilization into the master of nature. Marshall writes, "We suddenly find ourselves at a nodal point in the history of modern self-awareness.

  6. There's a certain Slant of light - Wikipedia

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    It is indeterminate whether the speaker's despair is inspired by the landscape or whether the ominous appearance of the landscape is a projection of the speaker's despair. Scholar Sharon Cameron, however, notes in Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre that the poem enacts both of these impressions, expressing how interior changes may be ...

  7. James Elroy Flecker - Wikipedia

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    Flecker's poem The Golden Journey to Samarkand was published in 1913, but only found its larger context when his play, Hassan, was published.. Hassan (The Story of Hassan of Bagdad and How He Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand) [9] is a five-act drama in prose with verse passages.

  8. John Adams Parker - Wikipedia

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    Parker was born in New York City. He received his education at New York University, and was a merchant from 1850 until 1857.He then studied art, exhibiting first at the Academy of Design in 1858, where he became a regular contributor.

  9. The Deserted Village - Wikipedia

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    Lissoy has "now and for nearly a century [been] known as Auburn" and is "so marked on the maps" (ibid.). For a similar claim regarding Auburn in County Westmeath as the Auburn of Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, see J. Stirling Coyne and N.P. Willis's The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland published c. 1841 (Vol. 1, Chap. 4). Others speculate ...