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... Elegy might be described as itself a blend -a very successful one . Gray's great achievement was to crystallize into distinguished expression the conven- tional poetizing of the meditative - melancholic line of / versifiers who drew ...
... Elegy might be described as itself a blend -a very successful one . Gray's great achievement was to crystallize into distinguished expression the conven- tional poetizing of the meditative - melancholic line of / versifiers who drew ...
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... Elegy claims exemption . Its success , one is tempted to say , is a triumph not so much of creative talent as of taste ; what makes the Elegy more than literary in the pejorative sense of the word is unusually fine and sure literary ...
... Elegy claims exemption . Its success , one is tempted to say , is a triumph not so much of creative talent as of taste ; what makes the Elegy more than literary in the pejorative sense of the word is unusually fine and sure literary ...
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... Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 1 and that Gray was trying for his Elegy 2 at much the same time as Collins ( who has other warblings in the same strain ) was composing How Sleep the Brave . The inspiring and emancipating ...
... Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 1 and that Gray was trying for his Elegy 2 at much the same time as Collins ( who has other warblings in the same strain ) was composing How Sleep the Brave . The inspiring and emancipating ...
Contents
Chapter I | 4 |
THE LINE OF | 10 |
Note A Carew and the Line of | 37 |
Copyright | |
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Revaluation: Tradition & Development in English Poetry F R (Frank Raymond) 1895-1 Leavis No preview available - 2021 |
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