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 39
... tion , just as Pope and Johnson did . But in " The Bard " the refer- ences to matters of historical fact had to be phrased in an allu- sive way because they were prophecy , and in a grand way because the conception called for the ...
... tion , just as Pope and Johnson did . But in " The Bard " the refer- ences to matters of historical fact had to be phrased in an allu- sive way because they were prophecy , and in a grand way because the conception called for the ...
Page 41
... later writers have glorified as the imagination . While for him , as for any poet , the imagina- tion still requires control , he does not , like these contemporar- ies , fear it as a threat to sanity . [ 41 ] Literary Views.
... later writers have glorified as the imagination . While for him , as for any poet , the imagina- tion still requires control , he does not , like these contemporar- ies , fear it as a threat to sanity . [ 41 ] Literary Views.
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... tion of the anonymous elegist whom the ' uncouth Swain ' in Lycidas momentarily invokes , and the central position is oc- cupied by the village Stonecutter who mourns ' th ' unhonour'd Dead . ' Gray has shifted the bearing of the poem ...
... tion of the anonymous elegist whom the ' uncouth Swain ' in Lycidas momentarily invokes , and the central position is oc- cupied by the village Stonecutter who mourns ' th ' unhonour'd Dead . ' Gray has shifted the bearing of the poem ...
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