Thomas Gray

JH 's preface discusses the moral and artistic duties of the writer; she assumes that this person is male until she reaches the diffidence and timidity which in the bosom of a female writer is...

She also worked at the beginnings of her education. When she happened upon Milton 's Paradise Lost she devoured it, and she learned Gray 's Elegy in a Country Churchyard by heart in the course...

Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson

Though CM 's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray and Horace Walpole thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we...

This is apparently a revised and expanded version of the text from early 1721 which Ashley Cowper copied in 1747 into The Family Miscellany. This first printing adds an extra forty lines, and several...

MM 's poems here include those from the Gentleman's Magazine, sweepingly revised. There is, however, contrary to rumour, no specific internal or external evidence to suggest that Johnson had any hand in the revision...

In her introduction AM faults Gray 's Elegy, which she calls so near to the work of genius as to be most directly, closely, and immediately rebuked by genius.

John Wordsworth later singled out AM 's article on Thomas Gray (published at a time when eighteenth-century poetry in general was very decidedly out of fashion) as being as sympathetic and fresh as anything which...

Murray then divides her volume into three parts: A Guide to the Lakes . . . and . . . the West Riding of Yorkshire, A Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, and...

The poem picked out by the Critical Review as the principal one, occupying fourteen pages, is entitled Lines found on the Stairs of the Tour de la Chapelle of the Bastile. These lines, powerful...

In On the Welsh Language, KP praises the early British queen Boadicea and anticipates something of the tone of Thomas Gray 's The Bard. It is unlikely that she learned Welsh (though her...

AP translated and published Letters Written from Various Parts of the Continent, between the Years 1785 and 1794 by Frederick Matthisson , which included three letters by Thomas Gray .

It is set in France, and voices anti-Catholic sentiments. The poetry quoted in it (by poets of the Graveyard School like Edward Young , Thomas Gray , and Edward Young , as well as...

Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson and Wordsworth ; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray and Crabbe , and wrote several poems inspired...

In a later generation Anna Letitia Barbauld followed Hertford and Carter in celebrating ESR her in poetry. Such different figures as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Clara Reeve endorsed her. She had a huge following...