| Poetry - 1986 - 200 pages
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| David Bromwich - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 320 pages
...prepares the reader at once for a supernatural tale — A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, • Greek grammarian of the second century BC 197 To... | |
| Frank Cioffi - Philosophy - 1998 - 328 pages
.... . and I ... set myself to study the problem. (why was it that) in responding to Coleridge's line ('It was an Abyssinian maid,/ And on her dulcimer she play'd,/ Singing of Mount Abora.') I could not think of Abora as a paradisal mount . . .? When I opened (Dali's Autobiography) for the... | |
| Malcolm Hardman - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 372 pages
...London to the arms trade and other interests. Yet another poetic subject had become a modern topic: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. 3 It is as providing, together, evidence for the continuity of a deep spiritual and intellectual reworking... | |
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