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AND Genre: "Poetry"

AND Literary Period: "Industrial Revolution"

AND Gender of Author: "Male"

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AND Metaphor Category: "Optics"

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Date: 1794, 1796, 1797, rev. 1798

"Where'er they rov'd, young Fancy and the Muse / Wav'd high their mirror of a thousand hues."

— Mathias, Thomas James (1753/4-1835)

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Date: 1805

"Hampton! 'tis thus thy scenes I view, / In Time and Mem'ry's mirror true."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

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Date: 1816

"Here, true to nature's feelings, find / A living mirror in each mind."

— Story, Robert (1795-1860)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.