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monody

[mon-uh-dee] / ˈmɒn ə di /




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West's "Monody on the Death of Queen Caroline," is a "Lycidas" imitation.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Coleridge's "Monody on Chatterton," the first poem in his Poems on Various Subjects, 1796, had been written originally at Christ's Hospital, 1790: it continued to be much altered before the final version.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

He left the Inspiration passage as it was in the "Monody on Chatterton."

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

The 4th Epistle is that to Joseph Cottle, Coleridge's publisher and the author of the "Monody on Henderson," referred to in Coleridge's verses.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

This, not to be confounded with Cottle's "Monody on Henderson," was Coleridge's "Monody on Chatterton."

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)




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