Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 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 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 ...
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action admiration Adolphe æsthetic Antony and Cleopatra Antony's appear artist aspects beauty Branghtons Burney's character charm civilised comedy comic complex convention critic Dalloway death Devil drama Duchess Duchess of Malfi E. M. FORSTER eighteenth-century Elizabethan Ellénore emotion English Evelina experience expression eyes fact Fanny Burney feeling Flamineo Forster give Gray Gray's heart hero heroine historical House of Gentlefolk Howard's End human humour imagination impression inevitably Jane Austen ladies live Longest Journey looked love-story Mansfield Park mind Miss mood moral nature never Northanger Abbey novel novelists observation Octavius once passages passion picture Pindaric play plot poem poetry Progress of Poesy reader realistic reality relation reveals romantic Russian satirical scene seems sense sensibility sentiment Shakespeare shows significance social soul spirit story success talent taste theme things thought tragedy tragic true Turgenev turn Virginia Woolf virtue vision Webster Wilcox worldly writer