Thomas GrayProvides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Thomas Gray. |
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... contemporaries , who had neither the detailed biographical information that is now available , nor effective psychological tools with which to appraise it , thought him very odd , particularly on limited acquaintance . In a reminiscence ...
... contemporaries , who had neither the detailed biographical information that is now available , nor effective psychological tools with which to appraise it , thought him very odd , particularly on limited acquaintance . In a reminiscence ...
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... contemporaries in England he was a Whig , much concerned with liberty as it was manifested in the English constitution and convinced that other systems , such as the French , were inferior . His two most elaborate poems , the Pindaric ...
... contemporaries in England he was a Whig , much concerned with liberty as it was manifested in the English constitution and convinced that other systems , such as the French , were inferior . His two most elaborate poems , the Pindaric ...
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... contemporaries Johnson most conspicuously ) , Gray was not interested in what he called metaphysical speculation in verse . When , on his tour , he began his Latin " De Principiis , " he was aware of an inconsistency between his theory ...
... contemporaries Johnson most conspicuously ) , Gray was not interested in what he called metaphysical speculation in verse . When , on his tour , he began his Latin " De Principiis , " he was aware of an inconsistency between his theory ...
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References to this book
L'aube de la modernité 1680-1760 Peter-Eckhard Knabe,Roland Mortier,François Moureau Limited preview - 2002 |
The Poet Without a Name: Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History Henry Weinfield No preview available - 1991 |