Eighteenth-century English Literature: Modern Essays in CriticismJames Lowry Clifford Oxford University Press, 1959 - 351 Seiten |
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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 ...
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... Gray tries to write dramatically ; he addresses us in the person of a medieval druid about to commit suicide . Such a role does not suit him . Gray was excited by reading about druids ; but he was not at all like a druid himself . Nor ...
... Gray tries to write dramatically ; he addresses us in the person of a medieval druid about to commit suicide . Such a role does not suit him . Gray was excited by reading about druids ; but he was not at all like a druid himself . Nor ...
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THE ESSAY ON CRITICIS M | 42 |
POPE SEEN THROUGH HIS LETTERS | 62 |
THE BACKGROUND OF THE ATTACK | 68 |
Urheberrecht | |
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