Eighteenth-century English Literature: Modern Essays in CriticismOxford University Press, 1959 - 351 Seiten |
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... Gray the man of the world - Gray the admirer of Pope and the friend of Walpole . In the best eighteenth- century manner he uses his taste and his learning to add wit and grace to the amenities of social life . But they are none the less ...
... Gray the man of the world - Gray the admirer of Pope and the friend of Walpole . In the best eighteenth- century manner he uses his taste and his learning to add wit and grace to the amenities of social life . But they are none the less ...
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... Gray curiously reminds us of a modern author . This device of imbedding other people's phrases in his verse anticipates Mr. T. S. Eliot . Gray's purpose , however , is very different . The quoted phrase is not there to point an ironical ...
... Gray curiously reminds us of a modern author . This device of imbedding other people's phrases in his verse anticipates Mr. T. S. Eliot . Gray's purpose , however , is very different . The quoted phrase is not there to point an ironical ...
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... Gray seems at moments to forget the difference between a poem and a conundrum . It is another defect of Gray's academic method - and , it may be added , of his academic temperament - that it involved a certain lack of imaginative heat ...
... Gray seems at moments to forget the difference between a poem and a conundrum . It is another defect of Gray's academic method - and , it may be added , of his academic temperament - that it involved a certain lack of imaginative heat ...
Inhalt
THE GLOOM OF THE TORY SATIRISTS | 3 |
THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM | 42 |
POPE SEEN THROUGH HIS LETTERS | 62 |
Urheberrecht | |
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