Thomas Gray: The Progress of a PoetFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997 - 279 стор. "The book is divided into five chapters. The first examines Gray's earliest poems and imitations for evidence of his sense of himself as poet, of prosody, diction, sources, or traditions to utilize. By chapter 2, Gray's impulses toward his goal as a poet become more evident, as he is manifestly determined toward a life of poetry. The "Elegy" occupies chapter 3 - his drafts and composition of the poem, and the poem itself, the resolution to his complex of problems as poet and as man. Close study of Gray's notebooks in chapter 4 shows that the Pindaric odes, "The Progress of Poesy" and "The Bard," though ostensibly radically different from the "Elegy," were conceived at the same time as the "Elegy" and thus draw crucial depictions of his movement toward serious revision of English poetic style and his own role as poet in society. Chapter 5 continues Gray's scholarly impulse that led to the study and imitation of Pindar, as he turned to Northern European sources for proof of poetic antiquity equal to the Greek. He found what he wanted in Welsh and Norse lore and wrote several poems imitating their style."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... poet is also significant : lounging under trees , reading Virgil , almost a caricature of the pastoral poet both nature - surrounded ( squirrels , not sheep ) and literate . We will see all the elements of this assemblage of natural and ...
... poet is also significant : lounging under trees , reading Virgil , almost a caricature of the pastoral poet both nature - surrounded ( squirrels , not sheep ) and literate . We will see all the elements of this assemblage of natural and ...
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... poet “ in state , ” or in " stasis " : Yet hark , how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect ... poet - audience had in mind . The usually sober personification of " Contemplation " becomes in the poet - narrator's ...
... poet “ in state , ” or in " stasis " : Yet hark , how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect ... poet - audience had in mind . The usually sober personification of " Contemplation " becomes in the poet - narrator's ...
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... poet's " they that fly " with a mocking thrust : you are a mere fly , inert and alone . Nature instructs the poet , correcting his easy moralizing with the explicit rejoinder that his youth is sexless and dull , vain and in vain ...
... poet's " they that fly " with a mocking thrust : you are a mere fly , inert and alone . Nature instructs the poet , correcting his easy moralizing with the explicit rejoinder that his youth is sexless and dull , vain and in vain ...
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Introduction | 9 |
Early English Poems | 44 |
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | 105 |
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