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 46
... language of the age is never the language of poetry ; ex- cept among the French , whose verse , where the thought or image does not support it , differs in nothing from prose . Our poetry , on the contrary , has a language peculiar to ...
... language of the age is never the language of poetry ; ex- cept among the French , whose verse , where the thought or image does not support it , differs in nothing from prose . Our poetry , on the contrary , has a language peculiar to ...
Page 110
... language , ” he adds for the sake of consistency , " is unlike the language of other poets . " 8 The first of Gray's translations was printed as " The Fatal Sisters . An Ode ( From the Norse Tongue ) in the Orcades of Thormodus Torfaeus ...
... language , ” he adds for the sake of consistency , " is unlike the language of other poets . " 8 The first of Gray's translations was printed as " The Fatal Sisters . An Ode ( From the Norse Tongue ) in the Orcades of Thormodus Torfaeus ...
Page 159
... Language Notes , LXXI ( 1956 ) , 409-11 . Useful comments on the struc- ture of the " Elegy . " " Toward a Theory of Romanticism , " Publications of the Modern Language Association , LXVI ( 1951 ) , 5-23 . Thought- ful , stimulating ...
... Language Notes , LXXI ( 1956 ) , 409-11 . Useful comments on the struc- ture of the " Elegy . " " Toward a Theory of Romanticism , " Publications of the Modern Language Association , LXVI ( 1951 ) , 5-23 . Thought- ful , stimulating ...
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