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These essays focus primarily on the theme of selfhood and subjective experience in the poetry of the British Romantic period, and in the later poetry and novels that were its legacy. There are chapters on Gray, Cowper, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hardy and George Eliot - writers who, though often having a strong interest in public affairs, all turned inwards to make trial of imagination and the individual life as sources of order and value against a background of cultural unsettlement. The book moves from the emergence of post-Enlightenment "psychological man" to the proto-modernist preoccupation with the self as "construct" in Byron and Hardy. The book also addresses such issues as the evolution of genres, the function and staus of the artist, links between literature and politics, and recent critiques of "Romantic ideology". "Existentialism" emerges as the fittest model of the human condition, stressing the necessity to create meaning in an impersonal world. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Publisher: New York : Co-operative Publication SocietySubjects: Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1854Original Publisher: Phillips, SampsonSubjects: English poetryLiterary Criticism / PoetryPoetry / GeneralPoetry / AnthologiesPoetry / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshNotes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1820Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: LETTER XXII. , jj.( 4rr-, £MR. GRAY TO DR. WHARTON. Xljfj? Pembroke-hdl, March 25, 1756. Though I had no reasonable excuse for myself before I received your last letter, yet since that time I have had a pretty good one; having been taken up in quarrelling with Peter-house, and in removing myself from thence to Pembroke. This may be looked upon as a sort of aera in a life so barren of events as mine; yet I shall treat it in Voltaire's manner, and only tell you that I left mj lodgings because the rooms were noisy, and the people of the house uncivil. This is all I would choose to have said about it; but if you in private should be curious enough to enter into a partici- lar detail of facts and minute circumstances, tie bearer, who was witness to them, will probably satisfy you. All I shall say more is, that I am for the present extremely well lodged here, and ... Read more

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Originally published in ca. 1891.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Volume: 2General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1904Original Publisher: G. BellSubjects: Biography ... Read more

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The Whole Carefully Revised And Illustrated By Notes, To Which Are Annexed, Poems Addressed To, And In Memory Of Mr. Gray, Several Of Which Were Never Before Collected. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This biography of the renowned English eighteenth-century poet and scholar Thomas Gray (1716-1771) was originally published in 1955. The text contains extensive quotations from Gray's literary work and correspondence which are counterpoised by a highly readable narrative of his life, most of which was spent at Cambridge University. Whilst Gray's poetic output was limited for various reasons, including an extremely self-critical attitude towards his own work, he remains a figure of great importance in eighteenth-century literature. This book reflects that importance, and it will be of value to anyone with an interest in English poetry, literary biography, or the cultural environment of the 1700s. ... Read more

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Volume: 2General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1825Original Publisher: Printed for Harding, Triphook, and LepardDescription: Mikrofiche-Ausg.: Wildberg : Belser Wiss. Dienst, 1989 - 1990. (Edition Corvey)Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: LINKSTHE MEMORY OF MR. GRAY.EXTRACTED FROM THE THIRD BOOK OFMASON'S "ENGLISH GARDEN."Closed is that curious ear, by death's cold hand, That marked each error of my careless strain With kind severity ; to whom my Muse Still loved to whisper, what she meant to sing In louder accent; to whose taste supreme She first and last appealed, nor wished for praise, Save when his smile was herald to her fame. Yes, thou art gone; yet friendship's faltering tongue Invokes thee still; and still, by fancy soothed, Fain would she hope her Gray attends the call. Why then, alas! in this my favourite haunt, Place I the urn, the bust, the sculptured lyre", Mr. Gray died July 31st, 1771. This book was begun a few months after. The three following lines allude to a rustic alcove the Author was then building in his garden, in which he placed a medallion of his friend, and an urn ; a lyre ovor theentrance with the motto from Pindar, which Mr. Gray had prefixed to his Odes, QNANTA 2YNETOI2I : and under it, on a tablet, this stanza, taken from the first edition of his Elegy written in a Country Churchyard:Or fix this votive tablet, fair inscribed With numbers worthy thee, for they are thine ? Why, if thou hearest me still, these symbols sad Of fond memorial ? Ah! my pensive soul! He hears me not, nor ever more shall hear The theme his candour, not his taste approved. Oft, " smiling as in scorn," oft would he cry, " Why ... ... Read more