This novel is well supplied with quotations: Macpherson
's Ossian
on the title-page and Robert Blair
(The Grave) to open the first volume, with Shakespeare
and Milton
for the succeeding volumes. It opens...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Deverell
Each of the seven sermons in this edition has a topic, and an introductory verse quotation: from Young
, Milton
, Prior
, Blair
, Thomson
, and Pope
. MD
's repeated claims to...
Timeline
March 1743: Robert Blair published his didactic poem...
Writing climate item
March 1743
Robert Blair
published his didacticpoem of death-inflectedsensibility entitled The Grave.
