Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 47
... poems . But among this dozen we find light verse and serious verse , reflective and dramatic , a sonnet on the death of a friend , and an ode composed to celebrate the instal- lation of a Chancellor of Cambridge University . Further ...
... poems . But among this dozen we find light verse and serious verse , reflective and dramatic , a sonnet on the death of a friend , and an ode composed to celebrate the instal- lation of a Chancellor of Cambridge University . Further ...
Page 58
... poems deals with his personal relation to life : his impressions of experience and the conclusions he drew from them . In one poem , indeed - the sonnet on the death of his friend West - he draws no conclusion : the poem is a simple ...
... poems deals with his personal relation to life : his impressions of experience and the conclusions he drew from them . In one poem , indeed - the sonnet on the death of his friend West - he draws no conclusion : the poem is a simple ...
Page 63
... 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 . Scholars are seldom fiery spirits : Gray's poems are ...
... 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 . Scholars are seldom fiery spirits : Gray's poems are ...
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