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" I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine filled with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost banister... "
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The Course of English Surrealist Poetry Since the 1930s

Rob Jackaman - Art - 1989 - 344 pages
...Surrealisme, I had only paraphrased and generalised without knowing the affirmations which it contains: "... I waked one morning in the beginning of last June, from a dream .... In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to...
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The Surrealist Parade

Wayne Andrews - Art - 1990 - 204 pages
...his friend William Cole. "Shall I confess to you what was the origin of this romance?" Walpole wrote. "I waked one morning in the beginning of last June...recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient casde (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost...
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Dreams of Authority: Freud and the Fictions of the Unconscious

Ronald R. Thomas - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 324 pages
...origin of his story to the recovery and writing down of a haunting dream that disturbed his sleep: "I waked one morning in the beginning of last June...a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story)...
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The Surrealist Parade

Wayne Andrews - Art - 1990 - 198 pages
...this novel. For proof he could turn to Walpole's letter of March 9, 1765, to his friend William Cole. "Shall I confess to you what was the origin of this romance?" Walpole wrote. "I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could...
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Gothic (Re)Visions: Writing Women as Readers

Susan Wolstenholme - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 234 pages
...began its reestablishment as a convention for describing the origin of a Gothic novel: Shall I even confess to you, what was the origin of this romance!...beginning of last June, from a dream, of which, all 1 could recover, was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head...
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The Columbia History of the British Novel

John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 1094 pages
...all the fanfare of a bored aristocrat telling his dreams over breakfast. "I waked one morning . . . from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle . . . and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour." Because...
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Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition

Valeria Tinkler-Villani, Peter Davidson, Jane Stevenson - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 338 pages
...these works were actually inspired by dreams. Walpole, in a celebrated letter of 9 March 1765, reports: I waked one morning in the beginning of last June...a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine 14. MS Townshend....
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De romantische griezelroman: gothic novel : een merkwaardig rand ...

Hendrik van Gorp - English fiction - 1998 - 124 pages
...genesis van deze roman schrijft hij in een brief van 9 maart 1765 aan Rev. William Cole het volgende : Shall I ... confess to you what was the origin of...a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story)...
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Tradition und Verfremdung: Friedrich Dürrenmatt und der klassische Detektivroman

Stefan Riedlinger - Detective and mystery stories - 2000 - 246 pages
...unter den Händen hervor: .. 'Shall l ever confess you, what was the origin of this romance! l waked up one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which, all I cottld recover was, that l had thought my self in an andent castle [...] and ihat on the uppermost...
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A Self-made Surrealist: Ideology and Aesthetics in the Work of Henry Miller

Caroline Blinder - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 194 pages
...in which the Gothic medieval setting provides the backdrop for an automatic experience: Shall I even confess to you what was the origin of this romance? I waked, one morning . . . from a dream of which all I could recover was that I had thought myself in an ancient castle...
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