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… works as Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard . Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Keywords Community Depression Poetry Salvation Solitude In almost every way, melancholy was always the very antithesis of sociability. The melancholy … genuinely terrifies, fills that ‘darkness’ with horrific visions and self-doubts, not least concerning God and one’s own salvation, and has the tendency to drive its victims towards self-destruction: ‘ When I lie, sit, or walk alone, I sigh, … Moral Philosophy and Madness in Early Modern England (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).   … Community … Depression … Poetry … Salvation … Solitude … Melancholy …

… into, seeming rather to make self-interest the motive for the exercising their profession than the eternal happiness and salvation of men’s souls. […] I think the precept and practice in most (that is, in too many of us) is an opposite to … Northumberland’s Grand Jury assembled in St Nicholas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on righteousness as a prerequisite for salvation. Normally, of course, audiences were of humbler standing. At Holy Trinity, Hull, on 12 February 1792, vicar …

… value he placed on individual friendships, Keats’s private correspondence sketches something like a secular system of salvation rooted, on the one hand, in a clear-eyed understanding of the transient nature of human existence, and, on the …