 | Roberta J. M. Olson, Jay M. Pasachoff - Art - 1999 - 412 pages
...Edward III, avenger of his father Edward II, as the scourge [Fig. 42] utilizes Gray's description: Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Stream'd, like meteors, to the troubled air). In his illustration, Blake transferred the meteor image... | |
 | Nick Groom - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 310 pages
...Macpherson and Percy On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed m the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard and hoary hait Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled ait) And, with a master's hand and prophet's fire, Struck... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 768 pages
...borrowed 'from a well-known picture of Raphael, representing the Supreme Being in the vision of Ezekiel: With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard...master's hand and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrow of his lyre. (PTG 185-86) The epode that follows sets out the bard's lament for his murdered... | |
 | James Fenton - Art - 2000 - 337 pages
...following passage: On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in a sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream' d, like a meteor, to the troubled air) . . . Gray's poem is one of the foundation stones of... | |
 | Ian Balfour - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 372 pages
...cut a prophetic figure: On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet...Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. 'Hark, how each giant-oak and desert cave 'Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath! O'er thee, oh king! their hundred... | |
 | Edgar A. Dryden - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 256 pages
...Robed in sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamd like a meteor, to the troubled air) And with a Master's...Prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. (Il. i7—22) In this case, the echo associates the poet, through Brown, with the martyred dignity... | |
 | Wolfram Hogrebe - Divination - 2005 - 306 pages
...Niederschlag: „On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the säble garb of woe With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose...Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. Hark, how each giant-oak and desert cave Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath! O'er thee, O king! Their hundred... | |
 | Aaron Santesso - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 230 pages
...creating a sort of linguistic nostalgia. The numerous grammatical inversions are perhaps the most obvious: With haggard eyes the Poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air) (18-20) More subtly, certain passages replicate what... | |
 | Simon J. White - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 198 pages
...mysterious figure: 'On a rock, whose haughty brow / Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, / ... / With haggard eyes the poet stood / (Loose his beard...hair / Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air)' (15-20). The nature of his power is enigmatic and impenetrable. Gray's poem inspired many writers and... | |
 | John L. Greenway - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 238 pages
...poem-as-process in the Nordic past:41 On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor, to the troubled air) And with a Master's hand, and the Prophet's fire. Struck... | |
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On a rock, whose haughty brow, Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood ; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air) And with a Master's hand, and Prophet's... 
