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"Fabric"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican with Enthusiastic or Evangelical Tendencies"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Work title:
"The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Politics of Author:
"From Tory to Whig"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Date: 1742
"How, like a worm, was I wrapt round and round / In silken thought, which reptile Fancy spun, / Till darken'd Reason lay quite clouded o'er / With soft conceit of endless comfort here, / Nor yet put forth her wings to reach the skies!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)