Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 58
... Gray's view , no vision of art as an expression of ultimate spiritual reality , where Truth is the same as Beauty and Beauty the same as Truth . Poetry to Gray , as to any other sensible eighteenth - century gentleman , was primarily a ...
... Gray's view , no vision of art as an expression of ultimate spiritual reality , where Truth is the same as Beauty and Beauty the same as Truth . Poetry to Gray , as to any other sensible eighteenth - century gentleman , was primarily a ...
Page 63
... Gray tends to leave out the facts necessary to make it immediately intelligible : The bristled Boar in infant ... Gray's poems are , compared with those of Burns let us say , a touch tepid . This tepidness shows itself in his ...
... Gray tends to leave out the facts necessary to make it immediately intelligible : The bristled Boar in infant ... Gray's poems are , compared with those of Burns let us say , a touch tepid . This tepidness shows itself in his ...
Page 70
... Gray serve each to strengthen the effect of the other . The fastidious artist and the eighteenth - century gentleman combine to produce something that is in its way both perfect and profound . Equally perfect and from similar causes is ...
... Gray serve each to strengthen the effect of the other . The fastidious artist and the eighteenth - century gentleman combine to produce something that is in its way both perfect and profound . Equally perfect and from similar causes is ...
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