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EPIGRAM: ON DURER'S 'MELANCHOLIA' by WILLIAM WATSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT HOLDS HER FIXED FAR EYES NOR LETS THEM RANGE?
Last Line: MORE STRANGE THAN ALL, MORE OLD THAN HEAV'N, EARTH, SEA.
Subject(s): DURER, ALBRECHT (1471-1528);
WHAT holds her fixed far eyes nor lets them range?
Not the strange sea, strange earth, or heav'n more strange;
But her own phantom dwarfing these great three,
More strange than all, more old than heav'n, earth, sea.



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