Author: Thomas GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The poetical works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Moultrie). Eton ed
Author: Thomas GraySelections from the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Gray
Author: Thomas GrayThe Poetical Works of Thomas Gray
Author: Thomas GrayThe Latin Poetry of Thomas Gray
Author: Estelle HaanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350419893
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
In the first full-scale edition of Thomas Gray's Latin poetry, the Latin text and facing English translation are complemented by a detailed introduction and comprehensive commentary that situate Gray's Latin verse in relation to his vernacular poetry, epistolary correspondence, and, especially, his appropriation of classical and Neo-Latin literature. This book also traces hitherto unlocated manuscripts of several of his Latin poems, and includes an editio princeps of recently discovered Latin verses pertaining to his Neapolitan sojourn. Gray's Latin poetry presents an illuminating portrait of the artist as a young man, mapping his growth and development from his Etonian days to his undergraduate years at Cambridge University, to his continental journey and his return to England. Impressively eclectic in its scope and tone, it ranges from experimental renderings of English, Greek and Italian verse to more strikingly original pieces, including poetic reinterpretations of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man and John Locke's An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. Gray looks back to a classical past, offering imaginative re-readings of Lucretius, Virgil and Horace. At the same time, his Latin verse is firmly rooted in a postclassical world. At its heart is the theme of presences, whether sacred, imagined, absent or remembered, conveyed with a linguistic ingenuity that facilitates the encoding of homoeroticism in a Neo-Latin language of sensibility.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes
Author: Frederick M. KeenerPublisher: University of Delaware
ISBN: 161149415X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes presents an account of “the Poets’ Secret,” the quite belated, historically recent, discovery by scholars and critics of something many poets have recognized and employed for ages: the sense expressed by allusively parallel parts within a text—thus expressed intratextually rather than only intertextually. Inferential perception of the implicit sense produced logically and linguistically—by enthymemes, implicatures, and other intratextual features, as well as intertextual ones—can be indispensable for readers’ comprehension of literary as well as other texts, especially their difficult passages. Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes addresses these elusive matters as they have historically been posed by Thomas Gray’s Pindaric odes of 1757, and mainly the first of them, “The Progress of Poesy,” a poem that readers have more or less knowledgeably struggled to understand from the outset. The process of disclosing that ode’s sense can be aided by new further reference to Paradise Lost, in the context of Gray’s largely unpublished Commonplace Book, with its extensive, little-studied, and very pertinent use of Plato and Locke.
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books in English Later Than 1700 Forming a Portion of the Library of Robert Hoe
Author: Robert HoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books in English Later Than 1700
Author: Robert HoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Author: Thomas Gray