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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS. Among the most finished and classical compositions in English poetry, we must certainly rank the Poems of TnoMaS Gray. Few as they are, the mere triflings of a man of letters, who prided himself less on being a scholar, than on sustaining the easy, desultory character of a gentleman, they have sufficed to place his fame above all danger from either the petulance of criticism, or the caprices of taste. What Dr. Johnson admitted with regard to the Elegy in a Country Churchyard may, without any restriction, be applied to his works: the merit of their author is now so generally appreciated, the public suffrages concurring with the competent decision of criticism, that it has become "vain to blame," if not "useless to praise him." The Elegy is, perhaps, the most popular poem in the language. It is the favorite recitation of every school-boy; and he who has once committed it to memory is not willing ever to forget it. Hackneyed as it is, and, what is still worse for the effect of a poem, imitated and parodied as it has been times without number, it still retains its original power to call up those pleasing and pensive associations which the charm of the sentiment, and the perfect grace of the versification, are adapted to excite. While his other productions slowly gained the public attention, the Elegy, when it first found its way into some of the periodical publications, was read and copied with avidity; and upon its being subsequently printed, speedily ran through eleven editions. It was translated into Latin verse by three different classical scholars, and five have translated it into Greek. Gray himself expressed surprise at the rapidity of the sale, and indignant at the neglect with which, what he deemed superior...
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ENGLISH JOURNEYS
Number 6
Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard and Other Poems
The English countryside has inspired some of the most exquisite and well-loved poetry ever composed in the language. This selection of verse includes, among others, Thomas Gray's reflective and moving meditation on mortality, 'Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard', the soaring beauty of Wordsworth's lines on Tintern Abbey and Keats's ode to Autumn, the deceptively simple words of Emily Brontė and the personal and evocative verse of Thomas Hardy, bringing together the greatest riches of English poetry.
Charles Cotton · Alexander Pope · James Thomson · Thomas Gray · Oliver Goldsmith · William Cowper · William Wordsworth · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · John Clare · John Keats · Emily Brontė · Thomas Hardy · Gerard Manley Hopkins · Edward Thomas
Charles Cotton ~ Alexander Pope ~ James Thomson ~ Thomas Gray ~ Oliver Goldsmith ~ William Cowper ~ William Wordsworth ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~ John Clare ~ John Keats ~ Emily Brontė ~ Thomas Hardy ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins ~ Edward Thomas
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217799507
- ISBN 13 9780217799508
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages20
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