| Front | the Castle of Indolence |
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| Back | poem Spenserian stanza James Thomson 1748 the first canto tells of wizard, indolence, and the castle into which he lures world-weary pilgrims there they surrender to idleness in an atmosphere of delicious ease, until they degenerate and are thrown into the dungeons. the second tells of the knight of arts and industry and his destruction of the castle. Thomson introduces himself (a bard here dwelt, more fat than bard beseems) and several of his friends into the action of the first canto. |
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