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 61
... seen as absolutely inevitable , and the poem does not give the impression of yearning for childhood - for one thing , the delusiveness of childhood joys is not merely stated , but stressed . Children are not idealized ; they are happy ...
... seen as absolutely inevitable , and the poem does not give the impression of yearning for childhood - for one thing , the delusiveness of childhood joys is not merely stated , but stressed . Children are not idealized ; they are happy ...
Page 95
... seen again as bringing breezes from the Garden of Eden in Paradise Lost ; and the “ distant warblings , " as Gray informs us in a note , are “ The suc- cession of Poets after Milton's time . " In line 135 , the bard suddenly turns from ...
... seen again as bringing breezes from the Garden of Eden in Paradise Lost ; and the “ distant warblings , " as Gray informs us in a note , are “ The suc- cession of Poets after Milton's time . " In line 135 , the bard suddenly turns from ...
Page 98
... seen them de- veloping in the earlier writings and the letters . In " The Bard " we can see a projection of Gray - and we have his friend Nor- ton Nicholls ' evidence that Gray authorized this view - just as we see him in so many of his ...
... seen them de- veloping in the earlier writings and the letters . In " The Bard " we can see a projection of Gray - and we have his friend Nor- ton Nicholls ' evidence that Gray authorized this view - just as we see him in so many of his ...
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