8795. Browning, Robert. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996

The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.


NUMBER:	8795
QUOTATION:	Give me the keys. I feel for the common chord again, Sliding by semi-tones till I sink to a minor,—yes, And I blunt it into a ninth, and I stand on alien ground, Surveying a while the heights I rolled from into the deep; Which, hark, I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C Major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep.
ATTRIBUTION:	Robert Browning (1812–1889), British poet. Abt Vogler (l. 91–96). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I–II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).
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WORKS:	Browning Collection.