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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... College , Cam- bridge . 1736 Gray inherited in February the small property of his aunt , Sarah Gray . 1738 Left Cambridge in April without a degree , expecting to study law at the Inner Temple in London . 1739 Began tour through France ...
... College , Cam- bridge . 1736 Gray inherited in February the small property of his aunt , Sarah Gray . 1738 Left Cambridge in April without a degree , expecting to study law at the Inner Temple in London . 1739 Began tour through France ...
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... College , Cambridge , at a time when Gray , a Fellow at Peterhouse College , had close contacts with affairs at Pembroke . Gray was contemptuous of Smart , who had a talent for getting into trouble over drink and debts . Smart , for his ...
... College , Cambridge , at a time when Gray , a Fellow at Peterhouse College , had close contacts with affairs at Pembroke . Gray was contemptuous of Smart , who had a talent for getting into trouble over drink and debts . Smart , for his ...
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... college's founder , whom " grateful Science still adores " in the college - but a most conspicuous point of the second half is that neither science nor anything else can ward off the inevitable agony of maturity . For that matter , the ...
... college's founder , whom " grateful Science still adores " in the college - but a most conspicuous point of the second half is that neither science nor anything else can ward off the inevitable agony of maturity . For that matter , the ...
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