Download or read book Elegy in a Country Churchyard written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grave To which is Added Gray s Elegy in a Country Church Yard A New Edition with Notes Moral Critical and Explanatory written by Robert BLAIR (Minister of Athelstaneford.) and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The grave a poem altered into rhime by H Lemoine from the blank verse of R Blair To which is added Gray s celebrated Elegy With notes and remarks written by Robert Blair and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grave To which is Added Gray s Elegy in a Country Church Yard With Notes written by Robert Blair and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grave To which are Added Gray s Elegy Written in a Country Church yard and Parnell s Hermit With Biographical Notices of the Authors from Dr Anderson s Edition of the British Poets written by Robert BLAIR (Minister of Athelstaneford.) and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bibliography of Thomas Gray written by Clark Sutherland Northup and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetry of Thomas Gray written by Thomas Gray, Sir and published by Portable Poetry. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Gray was born on 26 December 1716 in Cornhill in London. His father was a scrivener and his mother a milliner. He was the fifth of twelve children and the only one to survive. With his father becoming mentally unwell and abusing his wife she left with Thomas in tow for a safer life. Thomas was sent to Eton, where two of his uncles worked, and although he was a delicate and scholarly child with an aversion to sports he found it suited him. Whilst there he made three close friends; Horace Walpole, son of the Prime Minister Robert Walpole; Thomas Ashton, and Richard West. The four prided themselves on their style, humour, and appreciation of beauty. They were called the "quadruple alliance." In 1734 Gray went up to Peterhouse, Cambridge. Although his family wished him to study law he spent most of his time reading classical and modern literature, and playing Vivaldi and Scarlatti on the harpsichord for relaxation. In 1738 he accompanied his old school-friend Walpole on his Grand Tour of Europe. It was Walpole who later helped publish Gray's poetry. Gray began to seriously write poems in 1742, mainly after his close friend Richard West died. He moved to Cambridge and began a programme of literary study. Gray was a brilliant bookworm, a quiet, abstracted, dreaming scholar. He became a Fellow first of Peterhouse, and later of Pembroke College where he had moved after the students at Peterhouse played a prank on him. It is thought that Gray began writing his masterpiece, the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, in the graveyard of St Giles parish church in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, in 1742. After several years of leaving it unfinished, he completed it in 1750. When Gray sent it to Walpole, Walpole sent off the poem as a manuscript and it appeared in many magazines. Gray then published the poem himself and received the credit he was due. The poem was a literary sensation. Its reflective, calm and stoic tone was greatly admired, and despite the piracy it was imitated, quoted and translated into Latin and Greek. Gray spent most of his life as a scholar in Cambridge, and only travelled again later in life. Although he wrote little he is regarded by some as the foremost English-language poet of the mid-18th century. In 1757, he was offered the post of Poet Laureate, which he refused. Gray was extremely self-critical and feared failure. He once wrote that he feared his collected works would be "mistaken for the works of a flea." Gray came to be known as one of the "Graveyard poets" of the late 18th century, along with Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, and Christopher Smart. Gray perhaps knew these men, sharing ideas about death, mortality, and the finality of death. In 1768, after the death of Lawrence Brockett the Regius chair of Modern History at Cambridge, a sinecure which carried a salary of 400, fell vacant and Gray secured the position. Thomas Gray died on 30 July 1771 in Cambridge, and was buried beside his mother in the churchyard of Stoke Poges, the setting for his famous Elegy.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Lindesiana written by James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Graveyard Poetry written by Eric Parisot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While immensely popular in the eighteenth century, current critical wisdom regards graveyard poetry as a short-lived fad with little lasting merit. In the first book-length study of this important poetic mode, Eric Parisot suggests, to the contrary, that graveyard poetry is closely connected to the mid-century aesthetic revision of poetics. Graveyard poetry's contribution to this paradigm shift, Parisot argues, stems from changing religious practices and their increasing reliance on printed material to facilitate private devotion by way of affective and subjective response. Coupling this perspective with graveyard poetry’s obsessive preoccupation with death and salvation makes visible its importance as an articulation or negotiation between contemporary religious concerns and emerging aesthetics of poetic practice. Parisot reads the poetry of Robert Blair, Edward Young and Thomas Gray, among others, as a series of poetic experiments that attempt to accommodate changing religious and reading practices and translate religious concerns into parallel reconsiderations of poetic authority, agency, death and afterlife. Making use of an impressive body of religious treatises, sermons and verse that ground his study in a precise historical moment, Parisot shows graveyard poetry's strong ties to seventeenth-century devotional texts, and most importantly, its influential role in the development of late eighteenth-century sentimentalism and Romanticism.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Geographica Historica written by Henry Stevens (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Geographica Et Historica written by Henry Stevens (of Vermont) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Geographica Historica Or A Catalogue of a Nine Days Sale of Rare Valuable Ancient and Modern Books written by Henry Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Geographica Historica written by Henry Stevens and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
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Download or read book The Monthly Anthology and Boston Review written by David Phineas Adams and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: vol. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet."
