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 45
... concern for finish in detail , a concern closely related to his insistence on unity of effect . " Metrum . Observations on English Metre , on the Pseudo - Rhythmus , on Rhyme , and on the Poems of Lydgate " is a good example of Gray's ...
... concern for finish in detail , a concern closely related to his insistence on unity of effect . " Metrum . Observations on English Metre , on the Pseudo - Rhythmus , on Rhyme , and on the Poems of Lydgate " is a good example of Gray's ...
Page 134
... concern for charity of all sorts ( including , for example , subscriptions to aid captured enemy soldiers in the Seven Years ' War with France ) and for improved treatment of beggars , " fallen women , " prisoners , the very poor - in ...
... concern for charity of all sorts ( including , for example , subscriptions to aid captured enemy soldiers in the Seven Years ' War with France ) and for improved treatment of beggars , " fallen women , " prisoners , the very poor - in ...
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... concern for the self stretching out to concern for the identical aspects of mankind , would seem , by contrast , Romantic . Rather than say , with Arnold , that Gray was essentially a poet who was doomed to prose by a prosaic age , it ...
... concern for the self stretching out to concern for the identical aspects of mankind , would seem , by contrast , Romantic . Rather than say , with Arnold , that Gray was essentially a poet who was doomed to prose by a prosaic age , it ...
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