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Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray
Author: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley
Author: Thomas GrayPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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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
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Designs by Mr. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray
Author: Thomas GraySelections from the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Gray
Author: Thomas GrayPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Letters of Thomas Gray
Author: Thomas GrayDelphi Complete Works of Thomas Gray (Illustrated)
Author: Thomas GrayPublisher: Delphi Classics
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
Thomas Gray, the eighteenth century poet, classical scholar and professor of Cambridge University is widely known for his ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete works of Thomas Gray, with beautiful illustrations, rare texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Gray's life and works * Concise introductions to the poetry and other works * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Gray's collected prose * Features three biographies - discover Gray's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Gray BRIEF INTRODUCTION: THOMAS GRAY The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Prose LIST OF PROSE TEXTS The Biographies THE LIFE AND POEMS OF THOMAS GRAY by George Gilfillan GRAY by Samuel Johnson THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF GRAY by John Bradshaw Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets
Author: Roger LonsdalePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191515876
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 2220
Book Description
Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, written with characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy. Johnson's fifty-two biographies constitute a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to his own time, with extended discussions of Cowley, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Addison, Prior, Swift, Pope, and Gray. The Lives also include Johnson's memorable biography of the enigmatic Richard Savage (1744), the friend of his own early years in London. Roger Lonsdale's Introduction describes the origins, composition, and textual history of the Lives, and assesses Johnson's assumptions and aims as biographer and critic. The commentary provides a detailed literary and historical context, investigating Johnson's sources, relating the Lives to his own earlier writings and conversation, and to the critical opinions of his contemporaries, as well as illustrating their early reception. This is the first scholarly edition since George Birkbeck Hill's three-volume Oxford edition (1905). This is volume two of four.
English Men of Letters: Pope, by Leslie Stephen, 1900; Johnson by Leslie Stenphen, 1900; Gray, by Edmund Gosse, 1899
Author: 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.