Author: Thomas Gray
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Elegy in a Country Churchyard
Author: Thomas Gray
Publisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Publisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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A Dangerous Liberty
Author: James D. Garrison
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 087413062X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Thomas Gray's An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard enjoyed extraordinary popular success in Europe, where it was widely translated, imitated, adapted, and in various ways assimilated into the continental literatures. The history of the Elegy's circulation on the continent demonstrates the importance of the poem to the romantic generation of European poets, while appreciation of this history serves to illuminate modern critical approaches to the poem's often uncertain or ambiguous meaning.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 087413062X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Thomas Gray's An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard enjoyed extraordinary popular success in Europe, where it was widely translated, imitated, adapted, and in various ways assimilated into the continental literatures. The history of the Elegy's circulation on the continent demonstrates the importance of the poem to the romantic generation of European poets, while appreciation of this history serves to illuminate modern critical approaches to the poem's often uncertain or ambiguous meaning.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Author: Thomas Gray
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Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Publisher:
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Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Poor Things
Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564783073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter--a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of Bella, but his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love for Baxter's creation.The hilarious tale of love and scandal that ensues would be "the whole story" in the hands of a lesser author (which in fact it is, for this account is actually written by Dr. McCandless). For Gray, though, this is only half the story, after which Bella (a.k.a. Victoria McCandless) has her own say in the matter.Satirizing the classic Victorian novel, Poor Things is a hilarious political allegory and a thought-provoking duel between the desires of men and the independence of women, from one of Scotland's most accomplished authors.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564783073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter--a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of Bella, but his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love for Baxter's creation.The hilarious tale of love and scandal that ensues would be "the whole story" in the hands of a lesser author (which in fact it is, for this account is actually written by Dr. McCandless). For Gray, though, this is only half the story, after which Bella (a.k.a. Victoria McCandless) has her own say in the matter.Satirizing the classic Victorian novel, Poor Things is a hilarious political allegory and a thought-provoking duel between the desires of men and the independence of women, from one of Scotland's most accomplished authors.
The Background of Gray's Elegy
Author: Amy Louise Reed
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258047689
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258047689
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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The Grave ... To which is Added Gray's Elegy in a Country Church-Yard. A New Edition, with Notes, Moral, Critical and Explanatory
Author: Robert BLAIR (Minister of Athelstaneford.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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The Poet Without a Name
Author: Henry Weinfield
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809316526
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Henry Weinfield offers a new reading not only of the Elegy itself but also of its place in English literary history. His central argument is that in Gray’s Elegy the thematic constellation of poverty, anonymity, alienation, and unfulfilled potential—or what Weinfield calls the "problem of history"—is fully articulated for the first time, and that, as a result, the Elegy represents an important turning-point in the history of English poetry.
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809316526
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Henry Weinfield offers a new reading not only of the Elegy itself but also of its place in English literary history. His central argument is that in Gray’s Elegy the thematic constellation of poverty, anonymity, alienation, and unfulfilled potential—or what Weinfield calls the "problem of history"—is fully articulated for the first time, and that, as a result, the Elegy represents an important turning-point in the history of English poetry.
Select Poems of Thomas Gray
Author: Thomas Gray
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Designs by Mr. R. Bentley
Author: Thomas Gray
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Elegy for an Age
Author: John D. Rosenberg
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857287338
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This rich and elegant work describes how the unsettled cultural climate provided fertile soil for the flourishing of elegy. John Rosenberg shows how the phenomenon of elegy pervaded the writing of the period, tracing it through the voices of individuals from Carlyle, Tennyson, Darwin and Ruskin, to Swinburne, Pater, Dickens and Hopkins. Finally, he turns from particular elegists to a common experience that touched them all - the displacement of the older idea of the earthly city as a New Jerusalem by the rise of a new image of the Victorian city as an industrial Inferno, a wasteland of sprawling towns and of rivers so polluted they caught on fire.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857287338
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This rich and elegant work describes how the unsettled cultural climate provided fertile soil for the flourishing of elegy. John Rosenberg shows how the phenomenon of elegy pervaded the writing of the period, tracing it through the voices of individuals from Carlyle, Tennyson, Darwin and Ruskin, to Swinburne, Pater, Dickens and Hopkins. Finally, he turns from particular elegists to a common experience that touched them all - the displacement of the older idea of the earthly city as a New Jerusalem by the rise of a new image of the Victorian city as an industrial Inferno, a wasteland of sprawling towns and of rivers so polluted they caught on fire.