Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 60
... Gray's satirical and humorous verse - The Long Story , The Ode on a Cat , Hymn to Ignorance , and the Impromptu on Lord Holland's House . Now and again in these poems , more particularly in The Long Story , Gray the historian shows his ...
... Gray's satirical and humorous verse - The Long Story , The Ode on a Cat , Hymn to Ignorance , and the Impromptu on Lord Holland's House . Now and again in these poems , more particularly in The Long Story , Gray the historian shows his ...
Page 62
... Gray's purpose , however , is very different . The quoted phrase is not there to point an ironical contrast as with ... Gray's pindarics , like Mr. Eliot's Waste Land , can be fully appreciated only by highly educated readers ...
... Gray's purpose , however , is very different . The quoted phrase is not there to point an ironical contrast as with ... Gray's pindarics , like Mr. Eliot's Waste Land , can be fully appreciated only by highly educated readers ...
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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