Young's Night Thoughts

Name: Young's Night Thoughts
Author: Edward Young

by Edward Young

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Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Delphine Lettau, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2010-07-14

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

English poetry Didactic poetry, English

About the author

Edward Young

1683–1765

Best known for the long poem Night Thoughts, this English poet and clergyman mixed dark reflection with sharp wit and became one of the best-known literary voices of the 18th century. His work helped shape the grave, meditative mood that later influenced Romantic writers.

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