 | 20. Henry Vaughan, "The Night,"
Silex Scintillans
(1655), part ii.
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| 21.
Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry, with extracts from her journal and letters
(1847) (London: Library of the Society of Friends), 237.
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| 22.
The Young People's Treasury and Little Gleaner
18, n.s. (1896): 107.
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| 23. "Theodora," in
The Recognition of Friends in Heaven,
71.
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| 24.
The George Eliot Letters,
ed. Gordon S. Haight, 7 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955), 4:183.
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| 25.
Our Little Ones in Heaven, with an Introduction by the Late Rev. Henry Robbins, MA
(London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1858), 212216.
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| 26. "The Mother's Sacrifice," by Lydia Sigourney. (Much reprinted, e.g., in
Our Little Ones in Heaven
, 45). This is by no means Sigourney's only poem on a dead child. In fact there are so many that her biographer Gordon Haight claims that having devised a formula for such poems she used it "over and over again with a monotonous similarity of metaphor." The "formula" involves a conclusion in which the spirit of the dead child flies heavenward to "seek [its] place Amid yon cherub train." Since she lost her first three children at birth, we can assume that the monotony of the formula is due to lack of talent not lack of feeling. See Gordon S. Haight,
Mrs Sigourney
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930).
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| 27. Josephine Butler,
Autobiographical Memoir
, 5354.
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| 28. Shelley, "To William Shelley" (1819).
Poetical Works
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1905), 581. Other Shelley poems taken from the same edition.
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| 29. Walt Whitman,
Song of Myself
(1855), #6,
Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
(New York: Library of America, 1982), 194.
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| 30. Richard Holmes,
Coleridge: Early Visions
(Baltimore: Penguin, 1989), 224.
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| 31. Wordsworth, "The Childless Father" (1800):
Poetical Works.
ed. Ernest De Selincourt and Helen Darbishire, 6 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 19401959), vol. 2. All other Wordsworth poems taken from this edition.
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