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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... century , the poetry of this school consisted largely of horrifying poetic sermons . Of these , the most successful was Edward Young's Night Thoughts , a long work in which a gay rake called Lorenzo is graphically warned , primarily by ...
... century , the poetry of this school consisted largely of horrifying poetic sermons . Of these , the most successful was Edward Young's Night Thoughts , a long work in which a gay rake called Lorenzo is graphically warned , primarily by ...
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... century view of that era . Gray's imitation projects the underlying human blood lust that the eighteenth century chose to ignore as primitive but that is conspicuous in Norse poetry and , as the events of the twentieth century so ...
... century view of that era . Gray's imitation projects the underlying human blood lust that the eighteenth century chose to ignore as primitive but that is conspicuous in Norse poetry and , as the events of the twentieth century so ...
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... Century Thought . Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard University Press , 1952. The idea of the " Gothic " in politics , religion , and literature . Lovejoy , Arthur O. Essays in the History of Ideas . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press ...
... Century Thought . Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard University Press , 1952. The idea of the " Gothic " in politics , religion , and literature . Lovejoy , Arthur O. Essays in the History of Ideas . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press ...
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