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 114
... Mason , he did well to abandon it not long after . As an excellent judge of his own poetry , Gray was the first to condemn this fragment . While working on it , he wrote wryly of its lack of form : " I fancy , if it ever be finished ...
... Mason , he did well to abandon it not long after . As an excellent judge of his own poetry , Gray was the first to condemn this fragment . While working on it , he wrote wryly of its lack of form : " I fancy , if it ever be finished ...
Page 125
... Mason in a letter in 1765 , is a comic poem asking Mason's servant to pre- vent her master from botching Shakespeare's works and is also a purely private joke . " Satire on the Heads of Houses " ( colleges at Cambridge ) is again a ...
... Mason in a letter in 1765 , is a comic poem asking Mason's servant to pre- vent her master from botching Shakespeare's works and is also a purely private joke . " Satire on the Heads of Houses " ( colleges at Cambridge ) is again a ...
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... Mason , Memoirs , p . 218 . 4. Johnson , Lives of the English Poets , III , 425 . 5. Cecil , " The Poetry of Thomas ... Mason , Memoirs , p . 116 . 11. Jones , Thomas Gray , Scholar , p . 59 . 12. Mason , Memoirs , p . 203 . 13. Martin ...
... Mason , Memoirs , p . 218 . 4. Johnson , Lives of the English Poets , III , 425 . 5. Cecil , " The Poetry of Thomas ... Mason , Memoirs , p . 116 . 11. Jones , Thomas Gray , Scholar , p . 59 . 12. Mason , Memoirs , p . 203 . 13. Martin ...
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