Author: Thomas GrayPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray
Author: Thomas GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Answer to the Lyre
Author: Loftus JestinPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512803227
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In 1753 Robert Dodsley published Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray. Sponsored by Horace Walpole, this luxurious quarto was the first major aesthetic expression of the Strawberry Hill circle and a landmark in English book illustration. Kenneth Clarke called it "the most graceful monument to Gothic Rococo." Its witty interplay between illustration and text anticipated Blake, who studied it some thirty years later. Among its poems is Gray's famous Elegy Written in a Courtly Church-Yard. Loftus Jestin offers a facsimile of Designs (out of print since 1786) and a full-length interdisciplinary study of the collaboration of Bentley, Gray, and Walpole that produced this extraordinary book. He shows the way poems and illustration at once complement, compete with and invigorate each other, and he examines Strawberry Hill. Walpole's house at Twickenham, where Bentley's genius flourished. He also considers the interplay of the sister arts in the work of Hogarth, Kent, and Pine, and surveys the tastes, friendships, economics, and politics that helped shape the development of Bentley's book illustrations.
Designs by mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by mr. T. Gray
Author: Thomas GrayPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray
Author: Thomas GrayThe Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, English and Latin
Author: Thomas GrayHorace Walpole: A memoir
Author: Austin DobsonPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, the man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He was also famous for the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), and his Letters, which became a valuable source of information on the political views and cultural views of intellectuals in the pre-Victorian era.
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800
Author: George WatsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521079341
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1698
Book Description
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The Correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771) Including More Than One Hundred Letters Now First Published, Chronologically Arranged and Ed., with Introduction, Notes, and Index
Author: Paget Jackson ToynbeePublisher:
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Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Daring Muse
Author: Margaret Anne DoodyPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521277235
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Daring Muse is a challenging account of the richness and complexity of Augustan poetry. It takes in a broad range of writers from the Restoration to the Regency, from Rochester and Dryden to Cowper and Crabbe, and shows the essential connections between them. Augustan poetry has too often been thought of as uniform, staidly classical, even dull. Margaret Doody explodes this myth once and for all. She shows it to be poetry of great energy and diversity: of extravagant conceits, subversive parody, incessant stylistic and formal experimentation; a self-consciously innovative poetry that sought to express and extend the perpetual, restless activity of the human mind. Both the principles and techniques of the verse are related to similar elements in the novels of the period; the book's numerous illustrations help to show how the poems were presented and interpreted in their own time.