Studies in Modern Poetry (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Fairyland is a landscape seen by visionary eyes, a refuge of peace for the weary soul, a dusky land where we hardly descry cypress groves and grey waterfalls on the misty hills; in the pale glimmer all is still and silent, steeped in lethargic languor castles, hamlets and forests, the haunts of fairy people, lie deeply asleep in the magic light. It is a secluded valley in the country where the Castle of Indolence of james Thomson raises its enchanted turrets; the same opiate atmosphere, heavy with drowsiness, pervades the dale, rendered more fantastic by the change of illumination according to the waxing and waning of gigantic moons. In the introduction to the first draft of the poem the poet reveals to us how the scene was suggested to him by a moonbeam playing through the rose-entwined bower, waking, with its 'tinkling' on the grass, dreamy echoes in his mind.

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