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Although celebrated as "the learned, pious and incomparable Dr. Young" (as reported by biographer Harold Forster) by generations of British, Continental, and American readers of his Complaint; or, Nig...
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In the following excerpt from his commentary on Young's Night Thoughts, Melmoth discusses the style, imagery, and language of the "Ninth Night"—writing in the form of a let...
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Here, Mitford comments on Young's satires, Original Composition, and several other works, noting that the Night Thoughts show "fertility of thought and luxuriance of imagination"
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In the following excerpt from her full-length study of the "aesthetics of the infinite" Nicolson discusses eighteenth-century concepts of the sublime and identifies Young as a perfect ex...
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In the following excerpt from her full-length study of Young, Bliss summarizes and analyzes Young's Night Thoughts, and Conjectures on Original Composition.
The Night Thoughts constitutes Young...
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Below, Odell explores the ways in which "Young fully adopts the theory of divine poetry inherited from the preceding centuries and modified for the eighteenth century."
Such prominent ch...
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In the following essay Barfoot examines Utopian themes and images in Young's Night Thoughts.
Moreover, so boundless are the bold excursions of the human mind, that in the vast void beyond real...
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In the following excerpt Cornford analyzes several themes in, and contexts for, Young's Night Thoughts.
The Grandeur of My Subject
Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night?
(Job 35...
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In the following essay Wanko describes critical reception of Young's works and argues that his critical reputation has suffered because of the development of a literary taxonomy into which he d...
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In the following excerpt from his study of Preromanticism, Brown gives an overview of Young, focusing on his Night Thoughts and locating him in the literary tradition.
…Nowhere is the musing ch...
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Edward Young
Critical Essay by Courtney Melmoth
