Thomas Gray

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Standard Name: Gray, Thomas
Used Form: Mr. D. Gray

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Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
The title poem alludes through its name to Mozart 's Magic Flute. Its protagonist, Catherine, nearly eighteen, is gently mocked for her literary aspirations: Her Poems good, if not surprising, / On Friendship, Death...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Browne
FB began writing at the age of seven, when, inspired by her great and strange love of poetry, she attempted to re-write The Lord's Prayer in verse.
Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon.
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She continued to write throughout her childhood...
Literary responses Mary Whateley Darwall
John Wesley noted that he thought some of the elegies of MWDquite equal to Mr. Gray 's.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press.
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Literary responses Catharine Macaulay
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...
Occupation Horace Walpole
The Strawberry Hill Press was active for decades. Its first publication, Two Odes by Walpole's friend Thomas Gray , appeared on 8 August.
Residence Helen Maria Williams
She was delighted to learn that Thomas Gray had once lived there.
Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press.
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Textual Features Mary Masters
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...
Textual Features Frances Cornford
In this collection Cambridge again functions as an important subject. Frances Cornford saw her Cambridge poems as emblematic of her poetry as a whole. They served as a gauge for her poetic development and also...
Textual Features Harriet Downing
The poem begins by confronting those surly cynics who say women are incapable of true friendship.
Downing, Harriet. Mary; or, Female Friendship. James Harper.
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She allows that Woman is confined to a narrow sphere, her virtues hidden from the public gaze...
Textual Features Sarah Pearson
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...
Textual Features Catherine Fanshawe
One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray , was written not by CF but by her friend Mary Berry , some time before...
Textual Features Katherine Philips
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...
Textual Features Elizabeth Gilding
Edward Pitcher describes these poems, the last identified from her pen, printed and apparently written soon after childbirth, as gloomy in tone.
Pitcher, Edward W. Woman’s Wit. Edwin Mellen Press.
311
The Desire seems to embrace, for a woman, the kind of obscurity...
Textual Features Jane Harvey
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...
Textual Features Elizabeth Bentley
The poems appear in chronological order, written over the years since 1785, with a bumper year in 1789. EB writes in various modes, using on the whole conventional and old-fashioned style and sentiment in each...

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