...detective in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (1859-60) than like Dorothy's brother in "Tintern Abbey." I have watched Thy shadow and the darkness of thy...heart ever gazes on the depth Of thy deep mysteries. (Poetry, 11. 20-23) The greatest of the "mysteries" for the Wordsworthian speaker — the one which...

...uses to exemplify the violence of the dominant Western myth of language: Mary Lamb,femmefatale 3 1 Mother of this unfathomable world! Favour my solemn...have loved Thee ever, and thee only; [ . . . ] I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won from thee....

...with a fatal aporia" (Bronfen, 31). Das Gedicht von Percy Shelley beginnt mit einer Anrede der Natur: „And my heart ever gazes on the depth / Of thy deep...I have made my bed / In charnels and on coffins... / ...to render up the tale / Of what we are" (Bronfen, 32). Das Suchen nach dem Ursprung des Lebens...

...after daemons and dark knowledge (118). He tells his "Great Parent" that he has watched "Thy shadows and the darkness of thy steps, / And my heart ever gazes on the depth / Of thy deep mysteries" (45, 21-23). He portrays himself as a Faustian magician, an alchemist, a figure from Gothic romance;...

...itself the unlimited, immeasurable idea of the poet. Percy Shelley begins with an address to nature: 'And my heart ever gazes on the depth / Of thy deep...mysteries. I have made my bed / In charnels and on coffins .../... to render up the tale / Of what we are'. In a similar manner Mary Shelley has her Frankenstein...

...of Prince Windischgrätz. 354 Vestigia Veri. 355 VESTIGIA VERI. I. — EVOLUTION A>'1> REVOLUTION. Mother of this unfathomable world ! Favour my solemn song, for I have loved Thee ever, aud thee only ; I have watched Thy shadow, and the darkness of thy steps, And my heart ever gazes on...