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 21
... West , " go round and round like the blind horse in the mill , only he has the satisfaction of fancying he makes a progress , and gets some ground ; my eyes are open enough to see the same dull prospect , and to know that having made ...
... West , " go round and round like the blind horse in the mill , only he has the satisfaction of fancying he makes a progress , and gets some ground ; my eyes are open enough to see the same dull prospect , and to know that having made ...
Page 49
... West . The letter con- taining it was returned to him unopened . His own fears , sup- ported by his knowledge of West's illness , led him to infer correctly - that his closest friend since the rupture with Wal- pole was dead . To Gray's ...
... West . The letter con- taining it was returned to him unopened . His own fears , sup- ported by his knowledge of West's illness , led him to infer correctly - that his closest friend since the rupture with Wal- pole was dead . To Gray's ...
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... West's death , which changed a vague melancholy to an intense involvement in human mortality . II " Sonnet on the Death of Richard West " Though the sonnet on West was not published until after Gray's death , I consider it in this place ...
... West's death , which changed a vague melancholy to an intense involvement in human mortality . II " Sonnet on the Death of Richard West " Though the sonnet on West was not published until after Gray's death , I consider it in this place ...
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