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... Gray's slender volume of verse of which , grant- ing to the full the brilliance of Pope's own peculiar achievement , there is very little in his poetry , though there is far more of it - as Gray knew - in Pope's master John Dryden . It ...
... Gray's slender volume of verse of which , grant- ing to the full the brilliance of Pope's own peculiar achievement , there is very little in his poetry , though there is far more of it - as Gray knew - in Pope's master John Dryden . It ...
Page 208
... Gray essayed his most adventur- ous flight in The Progress of Poesy and The Bard , Dryden corrected by Gray's better knowledge and finer apprecia- tion of Pindar and Greek tragedy and Milton . And if the Elegy is , despite occasional ...
... Gray essayed his most adventur- ous flight in The Progress of Poesy and The Bard , Dryden corrected by Gray's better knowledge and finer apprecia- tion of Pindar and Greek tragedy and Milton . And if the Elegy is , despite occasional ...
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Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson. 66 masters . " How like Gray's . relation to Horace and Pindar , Shakespeare and Milton ! And , like Gray , Reynolds was unwearied in his pursuit of perfection of technique . His experiments , many of ...
Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson. 66 masters . " How like Gray's . relation to Horace and Pindar , Shakespeare and Milton ! And , like Gray , Reynolds was unwearied in his pursuit of perfection of technique . His experiments , many of ...
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