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 149
... English Ode from Milton to Keats ( New York , 1940 ) , p . 10 . 4. Mason , ed . , Poems of Mr. Gray , p . 75 . 5. Johnson , Lives of the English Poets , III , 434 . 6. Edmund Gosse , Gray , English Men of Letters Series ( New York ...
... English Ode from Milton to Keats ( New York , 1940 ) , p . 10 . 4. Mason , ed . , Poems of Mr. Gray , p . 75 . 5. Johnson , Lives of the English Poets , III , 434 . 6. Edmund Gosse , Gray , English Men of Letters Series ( New York ...
Page 151
... English Poetry , says that " The first critical point that must be made in any discussion of the poem is the inferiority of the last fifty - six lines " ( 183 ) , while " the sixteen cancelled lines , which rounded off the original poem ...
... English Poetry , says that " The first critical point that must be made in any discussion of the poem is the inferiority of the last fifty - six lines " ( 183 ) , while " the sixteen cancelled lines , which rounded off the original poem ...
Page 152
... English Poets , III , 437 . 10. Herbert J. C. Grierson , The Background of English Literature ( London , 1925 ) , p . 210 . 11. W. Powell Jones , Thomas Gray , Scholar , p . 96 . 12. Thomas Gray , " Cambri , " in Roger Martin ...
... English Poets , III , 437 . 10. Herbert J. C. Grierson , The Background of English Literature ( London , 1925 ) , p . 210 . 11. W. Powell Jones , Thomas Gray , Scholar , p . 96 . 12. Thomas Gray , " Cambri , " in Roger Martin ...
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