...Unexpectedly, in the response to unproductive late autumn, the desolated prospect thrills the soul. He comes! he comes! in every breeze the Power Of philosophic Melancholy comes. This is a crucial moment, for all its fustian. Nature, represented hitherto as a social order,...

...through the saddened grove, where scarce is heard One dying strain, to cheer the woodman's toil. . . . He comes! he comes! in every breeze the Power Of Philosophic Melancholy comes! His near approach the sudden-starting tear, The glowing cheek, the mild dejected air, The softened...

...seeks out sympathetic scenes in nature, falling into the melancholy so well described in 'Autumn': He comes! he comes! in every Breeze the POWER Of PHILOSOPHIC MELANCHOLY comes! His near Approach the sudden-starting Tear, The glowing Cheek,- the mild dejected Air, The soften'd...

...naked Tree; And Woods, Fields, Garden, Orchards, all around The desolated Prospect thrills the Soul. HE comes! he comes! in every Breeze the POWER Of PHILOSOPHIC MELANCHOLY comes! His near Approach the sudden-starting Tear, The soften'd Feature, and the beating Heart, Pierc'd...

...which lines 1003-5 ffOTn Thomson's Autumn are an epitome: "The desolated Prospect thrills the Soul. / He comes! he comes! in every Breeze the Power / Of PHILOSOPHIC MELANCHOLY comes!" Nor do they rely on Neoplatonic feelings or generalized mood poetry. Evening is the time of...

...It is also a melancholy world. In The Seasons Thomson says: The desolated prospect thrills the soul. He comes! He comes! In every breeze the Power Of philosophic Melancholy comes. Needless to say, the sublime could not be found in coffeehouses or clubs. In search of the sublime,...