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 53
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 97
... death in- evitable , and the themes , which on the whole suggest suicide as the appropriate form of death . This conclusion - triumph and death — is a concentrated projection of Gray's steady pre- occupations . Bereft of his friends ...
... death in- evitable , and the themes , which on the whole suggest suicide as the appropriate form of death . This conclusion - triumph and death — is a concentrated projection of Gray's steady pre- occupations . Bereft of his friends ...
Page 164
... Death of Hoel , " 124 ; " De Prin- cipiis Cogitandi , " 33 , 41 , 53 , 54 , 123 , 126 , 140 ; " The Descent of Odin , an Ode , ” 112-13 ; " Elegy Written in a Country Church- yard , " 15 , 16 , 17 , 27 , 28 , 30 , 33 , 37 , 50 , 51 , 52 ...
... Death of Hoel , " 124 ; " De Prin- cipiis Cogitandi , " 33 , 41 , 53 , 54 , 123 , 126 , 140 ; " The Descent of Odin , an Ode , ” 112-13 ; " Elegy Written in a Country Church- yard , " 15 , 16 , 17 , 27 , 28 , 30 , 33 , 37 , 50 , 51 , 52 ...
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