Thomas Gray, Volume 6I have two main aims in view 1) to give the reader as much information about Thomas Gray, his poetry and his age as he will need for enjoyment of the poetry; and 2) to examine all of the poems freshly as works of literature. |
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Page 90
... Bard " Everything that can be said about the formal craftsmanship of " The Progress of Poesy " can be repeated about its compan- ion ode , except that there need be no apology for the lack of central organic unity . Furthermore , Gray ...
... Bard " Everything that can be said about the formal craftsmanship of " The Progress of Poesy " can be repeated about its compan- ion ode , except that there need be no apology for the lack of central organic unity . Furthermore , Gray ...
Page 91
... Bard " failed to satisfy some of his friends , it had finally come . As with " The Progress of Poesy , " it may be useful to explicate " The Bard " in detail , though aside from the historical allusions it offers less difficulty ...
... Bard " failed to satisfy some of his friends , it had finally come . As with " The Progress of Poesy , " it may be useful to explicate " The Bard " in detail , though aside from the historical allusions it offers less difficulty ...
Page 95
... bards is reborn . The last stanza begins with a condensed summary of the glorious poets of Elizabeth's time and after : poetry , the bard tells the ghosts of his brothers , revives and again sings its proper subjects . First , a line ...
... bards is reborn . The last stanza begins with a condensed summary of the glorious poets of Elizabeth's time and after : poetry , the bard tells the ghosts of his brothers , revives and again sings its proper subjects . First , a line ...
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admired antistrophes Austin Lane Poole Bard beauty called Cambridge classical Cleanth Brooks completed contemporaries contrast Corre Correspondence critics death diction Dryden echo Edmund Gosse Edward effect eighteenth century Elegy Elton ence English Poets epitaph epode Essai sur Thomas Eton College ode example F. W. Bateson famous feeling fragment Gothic Gray's Elegy Gulliver's Travels Hagstrum Horace Walpole human Hymn to Adversity ideal imagination insists Johnson language letters lines literary Lives London Long Story lyric lyric poetry mankind Mason melancholy meter Milton moral nature Neoclassical Neoclassicism Norse Oliver Elton passion perhaps personifications Peterhouse College picture Pindaric Odes poem poet poet's poetic poetry Pope Powell Jones Progress of Poesy reader reflection response rhyme Roger Martin Romantic says second ternary seems sense sonnet spondence Spring stanza sublime technique theme Thomas Gray thought tion tradition verse Walpole Welsh West wish Wordsworth write youth